Offshore wind has no future in U.S. under Trump, Interior Secretary says
Interior Minister Doug Burgum said that this week at an Energy Conference in Italy, the open sea wind does not have a future as a source of electricity production in the US under the Trump administration.
“There is no future for the open sea wind under this administration because there is no future under this administration, because it is not very expensive and not reliable.” He said.
It is the most obvious statement from a senior Trump administration official that the President aims to close the newborn open sea wind industry in the US Burgum.
President Donald Trump made new rental for open sea wind farms on the first day of the office with an execution order framed as a “temporary”. Trump also ordered the review of the permissions, but hoped that projects would be allowed to progress during the industrial construction phase.
However, Burgum said in a statement on Wednesday, Wednesday without being named after the projects, and said that the Ministry of Interior had “a deep look at the five open sea wind farms in the United States.
The open sea wind farms under construction are the wind of revolution from Rhode Island; Vineyard Wind 1 closed Massachusetts; Coastal Virginia Open Sea Wind; Sunrise wind from New York; And the wind of Empire is outside New York.
“Yes, it was allowed, but they passed an ideologically directed permission process at the conference in Italy. He said.
The Ministry of Interior ordered the Danish Renewable Energy Company to stop the construction of the revolution wind on August 22, referring to national security concerns. According to OREDED, the project is completely allowed and billions of dollars are deposited.
The Ministry of the Interior had ordered a stop for Empire Wind in April, but ultimately allowed the project to continue the construction after making an agreement on the new natural gas capacity in May.
Burgum told Brian Sullivan from CNBC that he had negotiated in the wind of Revolution with the governors of the Trump administration this week in the wind of Revolution, but the project could not start again.
“I can’t say for sure because some of these projects are a real train debris for their economies.” He said. He continued: “If we were to complete them, we will only lock billions and billions of taxpayers who could go to a hedge fund.”
Renewable energy managers told CNBC in August that Trump administration would lead to a power crisis that increases the electricity prices of solar and wind attacks.
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