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# An ill wind
- URL: https://www.redeyebr.com/an-ill-wind/
- Published: 2026-09-23T23:39:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-23T23:39:16.000Z
- Description: States sue Trump over his offshore wind shutdown—but Louisiana, whose businesses stood to cash in, isn’t among them.
- Author: Mukul Verma
- Tags: News

East Coast states are challenging the Trump administration’s multibillion-dollar campaign to pay offshore wind developers to walk away from their leases.

**Why it matters:** Louisiana companies—especially those along the coast—had turned their offshore oil-and-gas expertise into new business serving the wind industry. The administration’s effort to halt offshore wind development threatens that opportunity.

**The details:**

- Louisiana businesses once accounted for roughly one-fourth of the nation’s executed offshore wind contract value. Edison Chouest Offshore, for example, built the first U.S.-built, Jones Act-qualified service operations vessel for the industry.
- An [eight-state coalition](https://lailluminator.com/2026/09/22/repub/trump-offshore-wind-3/?ref=redeyebr.com) that does not include Louisiana filed two lawsuits this week challenging $1.4 billion in federal payments to Bluepoint Wind and Invenergy. In return for the money, the developers agreed to abandon four projects planned off the East Coast.
- The agreements are part of a broader administration effort that has committed more than $4 billion to companies relinquishing offshore wind leases. Trump has repeatedly criticized wind turbines, including their appearance and effects on birds.

**The big picture:** AI and data centers are driving electricity demand, and Trump strongly supports their expansion. At the same time, his administration is paying companies to abandon one potential source of new power. 

**The bottom line:** Onshore wind development should grow under a future administration. But offshore wind may have a harder time recovering because it is more expensive to build, and that could cost Louisiana maritime companies a multi-billion market in which they had an advantage.

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