The American Prospect - Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to make your electricity bills go up. As my colleague David Dayen outlined recently, he is moving heaven and earth to stop renewable-energy projects—which made up more than 95 percent of new generating capacity in the first half of this year—most especially, wind. Future blackouts are practically guaranteed.
Now Trump’s war on wind has escalated to possibly canceling a huge project that is almost finished: the Revolution Wind project, about 12 miles south of the eastern edge of Rhode Island. Construction started in 2023, and is reportedly more than 80 percent finished, with 45 out of 65 turbines installed, and power projected to start flowing next year....
It’s anybody’s guess as to whether Trump intends to stop these projects permanently, or is just angling to dip his beak in their funding as he recently did with Nvidia and Intel. But given his relentless anti-renewable animus, I’d guess it’s the former. Regarding Revolution Wind, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and the developer Ørsted are considering legal action.
Canceling—or even delaying—the Rhode Island project in particular is so pointlessly, self-harmingly stupid that it would not have even occurred to any previous administration, including Trump’s first one. Revolution Wind would provide about 704 megawatts of reliable clean power, or enough for 350,000 homes, as well as reduce carbon emissions by more than a million tons per year. Ørsted carried out numerous infrastructure projects to move the project along, including a major upgrade of the New London port to handle the gigantic turbine blades.
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I sent a note to the RI Attorney General suggestingthat he incdict Trump for either extortion or blackmail.
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