Fifteen months later, the Healey administration’s ambitious offshore wind procurement pursuits have largely stalled. The governor’s team says Vineyard Wind is running four turbines in the waters south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. And Vineyard Wind officials don’t want to answer basic questions about their project.

At 68 MW, officials estimated the project in February 2024 was generating enough power with five turbines to supply 30,000 homes. The project is a long way from its planned 62 turbines, spaced one nautical mile apart, that would be capable of powering 400,000 homes with 806 MW of energy.

“We understand that Vineyard Wind has four turbines powering the grid with more to come,” Maria Hardiman, spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, told the News Service in an email after Vineyard Wind declined to comment on a series of questions.

The News Service recently asked Vineyard Wind 1 how many turbines had been installed to date, how many of its turbines were generating power, whether construction activities have been affected by President Donald Trump’s anti-offshore wind directives, and the latest target date to complete the turbine and blade installations and become a fully functioning project.

“We will decline to comment,” project spokesman Craig Gilvarg told the News Service on May 8.

The Healey administration, which has been a strong proponent of offshore wind, declined to comment on Vineyard Wind’s refusal to offer project updates and also didn’t offer much in the way of insights into a project the state is heavily counting on to meet its carbon emission reduction mandates.

“Offshore wind produced right here in Massachusetts will help lower costs, meet rising energy demand, and create thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic benefits for Massachusetts,” Hardiman said in her email. “The Healey-Driscoll Administration will continue to pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy that includes critical and affordable resources like offshore wind.”

Vineyard Wind in January confirmed it was generating power from one turbine, saying it had met “stringent safety and operational conditions” after one of the project’s massive wind blades shattered in the summer of 2024, bringing operations to a halt and prompting investigations.

When voters elected Trump in November, they chose the candidate who promoted fossil fuels for energy and openly opposed offshore wind.

A group of 18 state attorneys general on May 5 filed a federal lawsuit in Boston against the Trump administration to challenge what they called its “unlawful attempt to freeze the development of wind energy.”

That lawsuit asserts that Trump’s directives have “stopped most wind-energy development in its tracks.”

The suit says the Trump administration “ceased all wind-energy project permitting and approval activities” and “took no account of the serious reliance interests the States have developed as a result of the federal government’s long-running support for and approvals of wind energy development and its issuance of leases for offshore-wind generation facilities, which continued even during the first Trump administration.”

During Trump’s first term, the suit says, his administration “conducted seven offshore wind lease auctions, granted multiple leases to offshore-wind energy developers, and moved forward environmental reviews of proposed wind projects.”

The suit mentions a recent stop-work order “to halt construction of an offshore wind project that previously had received all federal permits required for construction.” A spokesperson for Attorney General Andrea Campbell said the stop work order applied to the Empire Wind project and that it was Campbell’s understanding that “construction on the fully permitted Vineyard Wind project is proceeding.”

In an April 16 letter, federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Walter Cruickshank ordered the New York offshore wind power project to “halt all ongoing activities” related to the project “to allow time for it to address feedback it has received, including from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), about the environmental analyses for that project.”

Offshore wind projects were met warmly by the bureau under President Joe Biden. Under Trump, the bureau shifted its focus to oil and gas leases. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum in April directed the bureau to take steps toward a new schedule for offshore oil and gas lease sales on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.

ISO-New England, which runs the regional electric grid, on Monday listed the region’s energy mix as 40% natural gas, 27% nuclear, 21% renewables, 11% hydro, and 1% each for net imports and other. Among the renewables share, the breakdown was 52% wind, 27% solar, 13% refuse, 6% wood and 1% landfill gas.

The News Service also asked the grid operator about how much power is being produced by Vineyard Wind, a joint venture of Avangrid Inc. and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.

“Our information policy prevents me from discussing the status of individual resources,” ISO-New England spokesman Matthew Kakley replied by email.