The Trump administration has paid more than $2.6bn in settlements to buy out wind energy leases, including $765m to Invenergy and nearly $900m to Bluepoint Wind and Garden State Wind, while union electricians and laborers on projects such as Revolution Wind and Vineyard Wind 1 describe repeated stop-work orders disrupting their four-week offshore shifts. Thomas Kilday, an IBEW local 99 furnace electrician, was aboard a vessel on the Revolution Wind project when the first stop-work order arrived in August 2025, and was preparing for his next shift when a second 90-day order was issued in December. A federal court injunction blocked the September order, a second injunction followed in January, and Revolution Wind announced in March it had begun delivering power to New England with construction over 90% complete.