America's New Offshore Wind Farm — Nobody Saw This Coming

Revolution Wind is delivering 704 megawatts of offshore wind power to New England right now, years ahead of schedule, while the federal government spends nearly a billion dollars canceling competing projects that never broke ground. All 65 turbines are operational off Rhode Island and Connecticut, joining Vineyard Wind and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind as America's first commercial-scale offshore wind farms. These projects survived a brutal financing crisis that killed dozens of others, succeeding because they locked in power purchase agreements before costs exploded. Meanwhile, the Department of the Interior paid $894 million in buyouts to developers walking away from Atlantic coast leases, creating a policy contradiction that defines U.S. offshore wind development today.