The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Feb. 2 granted a preliminary injunction sought by Sunrise Wind LLC regarding a December 22, 2025, suspension order issued by the Director of the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
The court’s action will allow the 924-megawatt Sunrise Wind Project to restart impacted activities immediately while the underlying lawsuit challenging the December 22, 2025, BOEM Director’s Order progresses.
Sunrise Wind said it will determine how it may be possible to work with the Trump Administration to achieve an expeditious and durable resolution.
“With safety as the top priority, the Project will resume impacted construction work as soon as possible to deliver affordable, reliable power to the State of New York,” Sunrise Wind said.
Sunrise Wind is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ørsted.
Several other offshore wind projects in the U.S. have also been allowed to resume work as a result of court decisions.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Jan. 27 issued a decision to allow Vineyard Wind to resume full activities in its lease area on the Outer Continental Shelf. Vineyard Wind is building a utility-scale offshore wind energy project over 15 miles off the coast of Massachusetts.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently granted Empire Offshore Wind LLC a preliminary injunction that allows construction activities to resume on the Outer Continental Shelf for the Empire Wind project.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Jan. 12 granted a preliminary injunction sought by Revolution Wind regarding the December 22, 2025, suspension order issued by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).
Revolution Wind is a 50/50 joint venture between Global Infrastructure Partners’ Skyborn Renewables and Ørsted. Revolution Wind will supply 704 MW of offshore wind energy to Rhode Island and Connecticut.
