A U.S. judge on Monday will consider a request from Danish energy company Orsted to block the Trump administration's halt on its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York…
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A U.S. judge on Monday will consider a request from Danish energy company Orsted to block the Trump administration's halt on its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York.
The preliminary injunction request is the fifth brought by an offshore wind developer since the Interior Department's December 22 pause on five offshore wind leases in federal waters. The agency stopped work on the multi-billion-dollar facilities due to national security concerns around radar interference.
Orsted has spent or committed more than $7 billion to date to build Sunrise Wind, the company said in a court filing. If the stop-work order is not lifted by February 6, the project risks losing access to a specialized vessel needed to complete installation of an offshore cable, Orsted added.
"Such delay would in turn delay revenue generation, compromise the Project's financial viability, and create a substantial risk of its cancellation," the company said in a court filing.
The Interior Department has argued that the suspension is justified by new, classified information about risks to national security from the operation of offshore wind farms.
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