An American judge on Monday granted Ørsted permission to temporarily resume work on the offshore wind farm Revolution Wind in the United States.
This is reported by the news agency Reuters. The project company behind the offshore wind farm also wrote this in a press release.
In August, the Trump administration ordered that work on the offshore wind farm be stopped immediately.
Since then, work has come to a standstill, and Ørsted has lost millions for every day that has passed.
The project company Revolution Wind is responsible for building the offshore wind farm. The company is owned by Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables, which is owned by Blackrock.
The provisional permit allows Revolution Wind to resume work while the underlying lawsuit about the legality of the work stoppage itself is ongoing, writes Revolution Wind.
The work will resume "as soon as possible," it continues.
The US authorities say that they stopped work on the offshore wind farm because they are concerned about national security.
In the hearing on Monday, lawyers for the administration argued that the offshore wind farm did not meet certain conditions for its permit, writes Reuters.
Revolution Wind was about 80 percent complete when the work was ordered to stop.
A document included in the case states that, according to Ørsted, it could put the entire project at risk if work on the wind farm is delayed beyond September 22nd. It is the same day that the work stoppage has been temporarily lifted.
The document also explains that delays cannot be made up one by one.
This is because some of the vessels used in the work will have to move on to other projects at some point. Some of these vessels are typically booked over a year in advance, it says.
According to the plan, Revolution Wind is to supply over 350,000 households in the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut with electricity by 2026.
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