Tell Congress to save America’s offshore wind industry!

The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, now under construction, is set to start sending power to the grid in early 2026, helping moderate rising electricity prices in Virginia, and to be fully complete by end-2026! Its 176 turbines will bring 2.6 GW (2,600 MW) of much-needed clean power-generating capacity. Though many other U.S. offshore wind farms have been capriciously sabotaged or canceled, this surviving project shows what’s possible!

The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is a model of energy/environment coexistence as well as an economic boost helping slow cost-of-living inflation. The build-out isn’t just taking pains to minimize any potential harm to marine wildlife, but bringing new positive benefits by providing additional “artificial reef” habitat for sea creatures to grow on. Construction resumed after a pause to avoid disturbing migrating whales, and the two already-complete “pilot” Virginia offshore wind turbines nearby have become widely known as a haven for sea bass, mahi, mussels, baitfish, and more.

Big offshore wind farms like this are creating entire new categories of jobs across America that already employ thousands of people. The Charybdis, the first-ever U.S.-built wind turbine installation ship, is currently working on CVOW construction after having been built by a team of hundreds at a shipyard in Texas. Offshore wind is a proven vector to help revitalize America’s moribund shipbuilding.

But the president continues to strangle this vibrant new American industry in red tape and capricious demands, in what’s now widely described as an “all-out war” against offshore wind that will directly raise already-skyrocketing electricity bills. Many planned offshore wind farms in Atlantic Coast states have been canceled for no good reason. The under-construction Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island was subjected to a completely ideology-driven White House stop-work order when construction was already 80% complete — an insane and destructive action so outrageous that a federal judge had to intervene to allow construction to resume.

With this kind of senseless and childish policy environment, America can’t provide cheap, clean electricity, boost its marine ecosystems with artificial reefs, or continue its historic reputation as a good place to do business and build manufacturing industries. Congress must intervene to advocate for and ideally codify in law a rational, nonpartisan business environment for offshore wind with safeguards against ideological sabotage.

Tell Congress to save America’s offshore wind industry!