The Trump administration has told a federal court that the barrage of other cases involving offshore wind projects has stalled its review of a key permit for Ocean Winds’ 2400MW SouthCoast Wind project.
Government lawyers told a judge that it is hoping to have a timeline by 4 March.
The judge granted a request to review the permit from Trump’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in November.
In a court filing this week the administration said that other cases involving offshore wind projects “continue to demand resources from the relevant staff at the Department of the Interior”.
It “remains difficult to calculate a timeline within which Interior would complete its reevaluation of the SouthCoast COP approval; however, Interior will strive to have a timeline determined on or before the filing of the next joint status report on March 4, 2026”, the government told the court.
“There are also at least thirteen other district court cases (some consolidated) challenging many of the prior COP approvals that Interior is intending to reevaluate,” government lawyers said.
The government’s move to review SouthCoast’s permits came as part of a separate challenge to the project by the island-municipality of Nantucket, Massachusetts.