Blow to Orsted, Equinor and BP as New York rejects pleas for offshore wind contract relief leaving 4GW in limbo

Nearly all of New York’s pacesetting 4.3GW of contracted offshore wind capacity is now in limbo following rejection of developers’ pleas for inflation relief by the state's utility regulator.

New York Public Service Commission (PSC) denied petitions by the state's two offshore wind developers, joint ventures (JVs) of Equinor-BP and Orsted-Eversource, for increases to offtake contracts as high as 55%, which one PSC member reportedly described as “breathtaking”.