The Trump administration’s war on wind is heading back to court.New York’s attorney general sued the administration Tuesday over one of its deals to end an offshore wind project.Under the deal announced in March, French company TotalEnergies is receiving nearly $1 billion to walk away from two US offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York and North Carolina.Associated Press reports:State attorneys general from Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont joined New York in challenging the cancelation of the lease off of New York, the larger of the two projects and the bulk of the payout,. They say it will harm their states’ economies, energy grids and climate goals. When President Trump’s administration tried to halt offshore wind construction, federal judges repeatedly overturned those orders, which led to the workaround of paying companies to cancel their wind leases.The money is only available to companies if they invest in oil and gas instead.Trump often talks about his hatred of wind power and has said his goal is to not let any “windmills” be built.Separately, AP reports that a coalition of renewable energy groups filed a complaint in District Court in Oregon on Sunday over Pentagon officials not completing national security reviews for new onshore wind farms on private lands. They say this inaction has brought a total halt to all wind project development. Together, the canceled projects would potentially have generated more than 4 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.3 million homes. According to the complaint filed Tuesday, the New York project would have brought $10 billion in savings to ratepayers across New York, with $500 million in savings for low-income households.Interior Secretary Doug Burgum countered that the offshore wind power projects were only viable when propped up by massive taxpayer subsidies under former President Joe Biden.The administration is reportedly spending nearly $2 billion to get energy companies to walk away from such projects.On March 29, my Oilprice colleague Haley Zaremba reported that TotalEnergies would abandon its planned wind farms and annul the lease deal it made during the Biden administration. After the US Treasury reimburses the company the $928 million it paid for those leases, the deal stipulates that TotalEnergies will reinvest that money in oil and gas projects in the United States. This would include a facility to export liquefied natural gas from Texas, ramping up oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, and building additional gas-powered plants.While the Trump administration’s decision to axe a planned domestic energy project seems fuelled by personal vendetta and long-standing hatred for wind energy rather than energy security strategy, for France’s TotalEnergies, the deal is reportedly a pragmatic one. “When the Trump administration came to power and began setting U.S. energy policy, we said that we’ll have to reconsider, clearly, these offshore wind project developments,” says Patrick Pouyanné, the CEO of TotalEnergies. He said that without the Biden-era clean energy subsidies that have been cut by the Trump administration, the margins for such a project become much tougher in the United States. A $1 billion payout is therefore a pretty good alternative.“To be clear, we don’t renounce onshore wind,” Pouyanné went on to say. “We continue to invest in onshore solar, onshore wind, batteries [in other countries].”The Trump administration has effectively canceled or indefinitely blocked hundreds of wind projects across the United States. This includes 165 onshore wind farms and at least four major offshore projects, according to one source.Despite the administration’s aversion to wind power, it represents the largest proportion of renewable electricity generated in the United States (more than solar and hydro), and 11% of total US electricity.Most wind turbines are sited in the central United States, including Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois.China is the global leader in installed wind power capacity, at 691 gigawatts. The United States in second trails China by a wide margin, at just 160 GW of installed capacity. Germany, India and Brazil rank third, fourth and fifth, respectively.By Andrew Topf for Oilprice.comMore Top Reads From Oilprice.comPakistan Turns to Russia and Venezuela as Middle East Oil Supplies ShrinkIndia Pushes Refiners To Boost LPG OutputTrump Extends Jones Act Shipping Waiver Through August