Offshore Wind Farms Take Shape off Rhode Island as Trump Fights Industry

Offshore wind farms off Rhode Island are delivering power despite President Trump's efforts to kill the industry. The Silicon Review reports on Revolution Wind's 93% completion, court rulings blocking Trump's orders, and the clean energy transition driving coastal states.

Offshore wind farms are rising off Rhode Island's coast, with massive turbines already spinning and sending clean electricity to the New England grid despite President Donald Trump's relentless campaign to dismantle the industry.

Revolution Wind, a 704-megawatt project located more than 15 miles south of Rhode Island, is now 93% complete and has begun delivering first power, Governor Dan McKee announced in March . The project remains on track for full commercial operation in the second half of 2026. Once finished, Revolution Wind and the adjacent Sunrise Wind project will together power approximately 1 million homes across Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York.

President Trump has made his hostility to wind power unmistakable. He has called turbines "STUPID AND UGLY" on social media, issued an executive order on day one of his second term blocking wind projects, and insisted that "smart countries" do not use wind power. His administration has paused permitting, arranged a $1 billion payout to a French company to abandon offshore wind leases, and negotiated similar buyouts for the BluePoint Wind and Golden State Wind projects redirecting millions toward LNG and oil and gas infrastructure.

But federal courts have pushed back. Judges have struck down several of Trump's orders blocking wind energy development, allowing projects like Revolution Wind to proceed. Land-based opposition has also emerged from an unexpected quarter: nine Republicans in the U.S. House, including Virginia Rep. Jen Kiggans a former Navy pilot whose coastal district hosts an 11.5 billion wind farm signed a letter demanding the administration justify its cancellations. An estimated 1,000 jobs & 2 billion in economic activity depend on that Virginia project.

For coastal states facing surging electricity demand driven in part by AI data centers offshore wind remains a critical solution where land for large-scale solar or gas plants is scarce .

As offshore wind farms take shape off Rhode Island and federal courts block Trump's orders, The Silicon Review examines how the clean energy transition is weathering the administration's war on wind and why Republicans in coastal districts are breaking ranks to save turbines and the jobs they bring.