A US federal judge delivered an order on Monday allowing the Sunrise Wind project to continue operations off the coast of New York state’s Long Island.

District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction requested by Denmark-owned company Orsted in response to President Donald Trump’s stop-work order that applied to five offshore wind-power projects.

Orsted is the owner and operator of the Sunrise Wind project, which, at the time of the stop-work order, was 45 percent completed and had cost $7 billion dollars in development. The preliminary injunction will allow the project to continue while the underlying lawsuit against the stop-work order progresses.

The company reported that it had lost $2.5 million a day since December 22. Judge Lamberth concluded that the project would be “irreparably harmed” if it sat idle for the 90 days ordered by the administration’s stop-work order.

“Every court to review this question has now found that the loss of specialized vessels and resulting delays amounts to irreparable harm. I agree,” the judge said. 

On December 22, President Trump paused five major offshore wind projects that were under development along the East Coast. The administration justified the halt by claiming the Pentagon had identified increased national security threats related to the projects, and the pause would give the Interior and Defense departments time to research ways to prevent security risks.

The injunction marks plaintiff’s continued success challenging Trump’s freeze on the project. The order comes in opposition to the administration’s stance on renewable energy, as illustrated in the president’s July 2025 executive order titled “Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources.”