A US district court judge has denied Dominion Energy’s request for an emergency injunction against the Trump Administration from halting construction on its 2600MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind.
Dominion had asked for a “temporary restraining order”, which would have allowed work to resume immediately on the array after the Trump ordered work stopped on all five under-construction offshore projects in the US on 22 December.
US District Court judge Jamar Walker decided that Dominon’s request should be considered as a request for a preliminary injunction under procedural law.
A request for a preliminary injunction is a longer and slower legal process than the temporary restraining order.
The decision to stop work at the $11.3bn CVOW is costing the developer $5m a day on vessels alone, Dominion disclosed in a court filing.
Dominion added that the costs of the shutdown are already being incurred by ratepayers in the state of Virginia, and those costs are set to rise the longer the shutdown stays in place.