Sept 18 (Reuters) - The owners of Revolution Wind said

the Trump administration's reasons for stopping work on its

Rhode Island offshore wind farm were "factually incorrect" and

only disclosed after it had ordered a halt to the project,

according to court documents filed on Thursday.

The filing in U.S. District Court for the District of

Columbia is part of a lawsuit brought earlier this month by

joint venture partners Orsted and Skyborn Renewables

challenging a stop-work order issued to Revolution Wind by the

Department of the Interior in August.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized wind

energy as ugly, unreliable, and expensive, and his

administration is leaning on multiple federal agencies to rein

in wind development.

Revolution Wind is seeking a preliminary injunction to

restart work on the project. A hearing is scheduled for next

week.

The August stop-work order from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean

Energy Management said the project was being halted due to

unspecified national security concerns.

But in a reply to Revolution Wind's complaint last week, the

administration for the first time publicly offered more detail

on its reasoning, saying the project had failed to comply with

some conditions of its permit.

Those conditions include requirements to coordinate with

Navy vessels at sea during construction and mitigate risks to

military operations from fiber sensing and acoustic monitoring

equipment used by the project.

The Trump administration also alleged that the project has

failed to outline efforts to mitigate its impact on scientific

surveys conducted by government scientists at the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Revolution Wind said it has coordinated with the Navy and

NOAA, adding that the administration's filing "belatedly asserts

- for the first time - purported failures that were not

mentioned in the Stop Work Order or identified to Revolution

Wind until they were newly advanced in this litigation, and each

of which is factually incorrect."

Revolution Wind is 80% complete with all offshore

foundations in place and 45 out of 65 wind turbines installed,

according to Orsted.

The project was scheduled to be completed next year, and was

expected to produce enough electricity to power 350,000 homes in

Rhode Island and Connecticut.