Directives Donald Trump deal with a fatal shot to the American Wind Energy Industry at sea

The suspension of Donald Trump about the wind development permit at sea applied a fatal blow to an industry that struggles with high costs, threatening American plans for power supply and decarbonisation plans, the managers warn.

More than 90 percent of the planned winds of wind at sea in the country, with a total value of more than 60 gigavate, is “serious risk,” said Consultancy Rystad Energy. While Britain, for example, has a wind capacity in a sea of ​​14gw, now has less than 0.2 GW. And unlike others Renewable energy sourcesThe US sector relies on the federal government due to the permit approval.

“[Trump] He has accelerated the death of the industry, “said Artem Abramov, chief Clean Tech -au Rystad.

On the first day in power, president Paused lease and allows the wind and the ordered examinations of approved projects at sea. His re-choice sent a cold in the entire industry, which made the leading developers reduce or stop their ventures in the US. Last week, Vineyard offshore, an American developer supported by Copenhagen infrastructure partners, eliminated 50 jobs, citing “recent market uncertainty.”

The American wind farm sector has ran over two years of high interest rates and inflation, which made developers cancel and negotiate contracts. Ørsted, the greatest wind developer, called his projects in the United States as the “hardest” part of his portfolio 2023.

Shell came out of the Atlantic Shores offshore Wind project last month, the only project approved federally, in New Jersey, he took almost $ 1 billion in writing of the day after Trump posted on the truth of Social to “hope he was dead and disappeared”. Totalengies also said that “it is not worth it” to persecute us on sea projects for the next four years.

Trump’s break on external wind projects is a threat especially for the goals of pure energy and the stability of the network for the East Coast of the USA, warned industry participants, citing a limited country and growing electricity of electric centers for artificial intelligence, filling of electric vehicles and production.

“It is simply difficult to produce these electrons in other ways,” said Hillary Bright, Executive Director in Turn Forward, a non -profit organization that supports wind development at sea. “You really start to ask, where will the electrons come from if the mat is really pulled out?”

Robert Blue, head of Dominion Energy, utility services that serves Loudon County, Virginia, the capital of the World Data Center that builds the largest wind project at sea, warned that he would stop development “would be the most inflavania” for the state energy sector.

The developers said Trump’s Stanka sends a negative signal about the stability of investing in the country. More than $ 40 billion has been invested in the American Sea wind farm sector, Ocentic Network, a non -profit organization. Bloombernef, consulting, considers European companies back more than half of advanced American projects at sea.

Despite the subsidies, offshore wind is one of the most expensive sources of American currents. It costs between $ 74 and $ 139 per megaattal lesson, compared to $ 45 to $ 108 per megaat gas hour for gas power plants, according to Lazard’s energy costs, a metric to measure the costs of different sources.

Several executives told the Financial Times that the economy, not politics, is behind the decisions to leave plans or priority to other sources.

“We think we were probably not the best builder of offshore wind,” said Brian Savoy, Duke Energy Cinemas, who secured the lease from North Carolina’s coast at 2022. Progress in lease was minimal, and Savoy said the company needed “clarity” before launching the project.

“The economy is first and foremost what we look at for our customers and we must ensure that we clean that obstacle before we deal with any other.”

Patricia Poppe, Pacific Director Pacific Gas and Electric, the largest utility company in the country, said that the company “No Plans” for the construction of wind projects at sea, saying that “there are lower costs to serve the demand of our customers.”

Scott Stazik, the CEO of Ge Vernova, the largest wind turbine manufacturer in the country, said Trump’s wind action at sea “does not change the expectations of growth where we were”.

“We were very clear for a long time not to take new wind commands at sea until they are not a significantly different economy than the economy we see today,” he added.