US President Donald Trump has long been considered on wind power. But in a recent speech in Michigan, marking his first 100 days in the office, he made it more simple than ever.
Commenting on their support of coal -powered power plants, he said: “You know what approval I do not give?
It marks the latest in several attacks that the President has done on the clean energy industry entering the White House – along with the focus on the air.
On his first day at the office, President Trump signed to stop executive orders Permits for onshore wind power projects and lease for offshore wind fields In American coastal water. It has recently been taken a toll on the forecast for an area. Bloomberg nap report Increasing the low growth until the middle of the next decade, “permission and reflecting administration functions on seabed leases”.
It is an investor and people working in the field are worried, Hannah Hes says, the independent research provider the Associate Director of Energy and Climate in the Rodium Group.
“When you are looking at the enmity with a certain type of clean technology from the administration, it is understandable that those who are developing both wind projects and are now deciding the construction of components like blades and towers, there is no right time of these features in the US,” he said.
He said that despite the incentives at present through inflation reduction act (IRA), he said.
Clean energy boom in America
Clean energy in America has increased considerably in recent years. In 2024, more than 90% new energy capacity came from wind, solar and battery storage, a figure that was increased through investment.
Passed in 2022, the then President Joe Biden’s administration, it was The biggest climate investment in American history. The former government promised to invest $ 370 billion (€ 330 billion) in the next decade to promote clean energy technology and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“It was a real exciting point of development to see, and I think the cost is that the cost has come only for the thesis Clean Tech Generator,” Leslie Abraham, Deputy Director of Energy Security and Climate Change Program in for Strategic and International Studies.
“A part of it has been from IRA Tax Credit,” she said.
Overall, renewal is now responsible for more than 20% of power generation in the US, with air about half. And while it took 40 years to create capacity for utility-prime-clean power for 200GW, one and 100gw was added in just three years, marking a “dramatic acceleration”, according to Report from the Clean Energy Industry Body American Clean Power Association.
Analysts say that the demand for electricity in the US increases for the first time for more than a decade, reflects the needs of data centers, and expands the manufacturing sector and increases electrification for electric vehicles, more power may need to be more power, analysts say.
Abraham said, “We are trying to get ahead of that problem and are sure that we have enough generation capacity on the grid and manufacturing side,” Abraham said she believes that she believes that there is the key to clean energy.
“Clean energy is the fastest to get online,” he said.
Effect of tafs on renewable area
But this is contrary to the supply of the new President. Even on the campaign mark, Trump promised more investment in fossil fuel, which bought his now for “drill, baby, drill”.
Since assuming office, the Trump administration has already tried to prevent the funds approved for green energy projects and to cancel parts of IRA.
In In early April, The President said that in a long time clean energy could have an impact – especially targeting South East Asia, an area where the countries are facing some highest figures.
Hayes said from Rhodium, “Tariff on South-East Asia will have a great dramatic effect on solar, especially in the US, because some components of the first days that are very important inputs for our already development solar module manufacturing sector, are now subject to high talif.”
Abraham said, “There is not a clean energy that does not trust imports.”
If, tariffs may mean that companies can be renewable companies, but so much natural gas, for example, to pay too much prices and it can be a trickle-down effect, Abraham said.
“My concern is that it is what is finally the customer, to the retarders, at a time, when the vigor is an important issue in electricity,” he said.
However, the President has since applied brakes on several tariffs for 90 days, that, with funding freeze and anti-randable rhetoric, “has been injecting uncertainty in the future trajectory of the place for a clean tech in the United States,” he said.
In the first quarter of this year, before Trump made his initial tariff announcements, six clean energy projects, representing $ 6.9 billion (€ 6.2 billion) investment, were canceled, according to clean investment monitor, “highest quarter on records”.
The situation is “nuances”, stating that from the last quarter of 2024, but less than the same period of last year, a high number of new manufacturing projects has been announced.
“In new announcements, including the upper, with significant cancellations, the progress obtained under the IRA and highlight the risks generated by an unstable policy environment,” Rhodium Report.
Clean energy will continue to grow, but at a slow pace
Despite the headwinds facing the clean energy industry in the US, the consensus is that the region will continue to grow, slow alpine. Experts at Bloomberg Nep’s new energy outlook estimates that the wind capacity will double by 2035 and to get solar triple, while the battery storage will increase from 29GW to 175GW in 2024.
Nevertheless, the US will have to compete globally as countries around the world move away from fossil fuels and clean energy sources.
Abraham said, “Finally, I think there is a motion behind a clean tech. It is not just climate, it is actually about economic competition, geopolitical leverage and national security.”
“If the US continues to separate itself, the sector will configure itself around the US and exclude America,” he said.
Edited by: Sara Stephen
