| ▲ | syncsynchalt a day ago | |||||||||||||
Politicians make a lot of noise about renewables but they're still being installed by grid operators record-breaking numbers, including in places like Texas. Renewables pay for themselves and the lack of federal incentives no longer slows the rate they're being installed. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | epistasis 20 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
One of the most important new types of renewable, deep offshore wind, is just becoming very economical, and was on the precipice of being deployed at large scale in the US. However, Trump has issued stop-work order on the only two projects, both multi-billion dollar, with issued permits. They are the ~800MW Empire Wind Project and the ~700MW Revolution Wind project: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-administration-offsho... https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/fishermen... The Empire Wind project was allowed to continue after negotiation from NY's governor, but these sorts of mafia tactics will stop the development of new off shore wind projects. Multi-billion dollar projects getting shakedowns midway through is no way to run a country. Perhaps even worse, it prevents the US form acquiring the construction skills to work on this on our own in the future. We are getting extremely far behind on a crucial technology for renewables at the population centers for northern latitudes. | ||||||||||||||
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