President Trump’s administration has ordered a developer to halt construction on a nearly complete offshore wind farm off Rhode Island’s coast, casting the future of the state’s largest renewable energy project into doubt.

In a stop-work order issued on Friday afternoon, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it is seeking to address national security concerns raised by the construction of Revolution Wind.

The brief letter, signed by BOEM’s acting director Matthew Giacona, did not specify what those security concerns are.

Orsted, a Danish energy company developing the wind farm, received construction permits from the Biden administration in 2023. The company also has power purchase agreements with Rhode Island and Connecticut, where state officials estimated the wind farm wo

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