Ten Most Read News on offshoreWIND.biz in 2025

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OffshoreWIND.biz has millions of views per year and hundreds of thousands per month. In 2025, some stories received significantly bigger attention than others, and in this overview, we are bringing the ten most popular news in the now-past year.

In August, only days after Ørsted reported that Revolution Wind was at 80 per cent of completion, the US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a stop-work order halting all offshore construction activities on the offshore wind project that is scheduled to start feeding electricity into Connecticut and Rhode Island grids this year.

The decision, which sparked backlash from the industry and some state governments, came a few months after a stop-work order was issued for Equinor’s Empire Wind 1. The order for Empire Wind 1 was rescinded around a month after it was imposed, following talks between the New York state government and the White House.

Revolution Wind continued construction in September after a US judge in Washington granted a temporary injunction that lifted the federal stop-work order.

However, the 704 MW Revolution Wind and several other projects were ordered to cease offshore work (again) on 22 December 2025 , when the US Department of Interior paused the leases and suspended construction at all large-scale offshore wind projects currently under construction in the United States, citing ”national security risks identified by the Department of War in recently completed classified reports.” This order is still in effect as of the publication of this article.