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"American president Donald Trump’s war on renewables has claimed two more
scalps, including a hugely successful renewable energy mandate in Arizona and
an already approved offshore wind farm off the coast of Maryland and Delaware.
According to a report from
Reuters, the Trump administration is seeking to
vacate approval of the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, which was granted by the
previous Biden administration in September of 2024.
The proposed offshore project, which would have been located off the coast of
Maryland and Delaware, was planned to be built in three phases with an eventual
total capacity of over 2 gigawatts (GW).
The latest developments follow Trump’s announcement that construction of a
nearly complete offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island and
Connecticut.
But it is not just wind that is the subject of Trump and Republican ire. Trump
has canned a multi-billion scheme that helps farmers install solar on their
properties, while in Arizona local authorities have scrapped that state’
renewable energy mandates.
Trump has long raged against wind and solar, repeating baseless misinformation
and outright disinformation, ranging from the 2023 claim that wind turbine
noise causes cancer and offshore wind farms kill whales.
In a recent post on his social media site Truth Social, Trump declared in his
usual chaotic expostulation of capitalisation and punctuation that “Any State
that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD
BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS.”
“THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar.
The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” the president of the United
States said.
This particular claim will likely come as a surprise to the nation’s
electricity utilities, with the most recent data from Lazard confirming that
solar and onshore wind are the least expensive and quickest power generation
sources to deploy in the United States – and that, even without government
subsidies.
Facts such as these, however, have long been surplus to requirements in the
Trump White House, which is instead paving the way for Republicans around the
country to fight back against the clean energy transition, including by
repealing and dismantle policies."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
