Construction work has been allowed to resume at the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, USA.
The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a decision on January 27, 2026 to allow construction work at the project to resume in full in its lease area on the Outer Continental Shelf.
On January 15, 2026, Vineyard Wind filed a legal challenge to the December 22 suspension order issued by the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The court’s decision stays BOEM’s suspension order.
The USD4.5 billion Vineyard Wind project, which is being developed by a joint venture between Iberdrola subsidiary Avangrid and Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), is one of five projects hit by stop work orders.
On January 16, Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, was allowed to resume work by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia until its request for a permanent injunction against the December 22 suspension order from the BOEM is decided. Revolution Wind (being built by Ørsted and Global Infrastructure Partners) and Empire Wind (built by Equinor) were also granted preliminary injunctions to resume work. Equinor is building the fourth project, Sunrise Wind, on its own.
