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The Interior Department wants to reevaluate a key approval for Revolution Wind, a $6.2 billion project that is already built and running, after earlier halting construction on other offshore wind farms and cancelling leases for future ones.
Why it matters It shows the administration is willing to target projects that are already operating, adding a new layer of risk to a battered industry.
Hundreds of thousands of customers lost power at the peak of Hurricane Isaias, and by the third day of recovery roughly 160,000 were still out, many of them in Florida. FPL said its underground lines performed eight times better than overhead ones, and utilities credited grid modernization with limiting and shortening outages.
Why it matters Storm performance feeds directly into the debates over utility spending, undergrounding and who pays for reliability.