Three wind turbines from Deepwater Wind stand in the water off Block Island, Rhode Island, the nation's first offshore wind farm, on August 15, 2016. Michael Dwyer/AP/File

New England, long burdened with some of the nation’s highest electricity costs, is facing a growing energy crisis.

Winter cold snaps routinely send utility bills soaring in a region where natural gas fuels most of the grid. Offshore wind was seen as the answer — a long-promised relief for the densely populated, power-hungry states.

Instead, the centerpiece project has been halted midstream: Driven by the president’s longstanding distaste for wind turbines, the Trump administration issued a stop-work order on the nearly finished Revolution Wind farm, shuttering construction on an 80%-complete project and injecting

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