How Long Will Trump Be Able to Deny Reality with His Energy Policy?

They would not like them on our federal lands (these are reserved for oil and gas, and perhaps nuclear reactors). They don’t want them on agricultural land. They will not allow them to float offshore. The Trump Administration War against wind and solar energy continues to become more aggressive: at the end of last week, for example, he announced an investigation into the possibility of pricing wind-turbine components from other countries for projects that he had taken his duties too late to block. Like the Times Politely said: “The Trump administration has generally imposed prices to protect American companies against foreign competition and stimulate the domestic production of critical products. This time, exposing a way to impose prices could be an attempt to counter an industry. ” Friday, he closed a wind farm almost completed off the Côtes du Rhode Island on unpertified land (and difficult to imagine).

The resentment in Séussia with which each layer of the administration considers clean energy would be almost funny if it was not so tragically myopic. No later in 2009, Donald Trump joined a handful of other business leaders in signing a full page ad in the Times Undering President Obama to “strengthen” American climate legislation and “show the world by example”. The announcement insisted that “investment in its own energy saving will stimulate advanced technologies that will stimulate economic growth, create new energy jobs and increase our energy security, while reducing the harmful emissions that endanger our planet. We have the capacity and know how to direct the world in clean energy technology. ” The other signatories ran the whole range of Ben and Jerry to Martha Stewart, but only Trump signaled the rest of his key frames: don, Jr.; Eric; and Ivanka.

But it was before the view of wind turbines on the horizon of the Scottish golf course of Trump him seriously injured. As he wrote to the Prime Minister of Scotland in 2011, when his project ended: “Unfortunately, instead of celebrating the beginning of something precious and beautiful for Scotland, this ugly cloud is suspended above the future of the great Scottish coast.” And it took almost fifteen years before the oil and gas leaders passed unprecedented sums during an electoral cycle; Almost half of the amount spent during the 2024 cycle went to the Republicans and the rest on the Lobbying of Congress. We are no longer in Kansas (the fourth largest state producer of wind).

The greatest irony of this dramatic turnaround is that in 2009 solar and wind energy were still expensive; Now these are the cheapest forms of energy offered. And yet the hollow administration. The question is: will it be able to hold this position even if the prices of electricity begin to increase? (On average, they are up ten percent so far this year.)

For the moment, official policy seems to be a complete confusion. The president, during his first day of mandate in January, said an “energy emergency” as a means of suspending regulations and allowing an increase in drilling and the creation of more generation capacity. His team argues that we need much more electricity to build data centers that would allow the United States to go beyond China in the race for “domination of AI”. As Trump said in his first statement, “without immediate remedy”, America’s energy situation “will deteriorate considerably in the near future due to a high demand for energy and natural resources to fuel the next generation of technology. The ability of the United States to remain at the forefront of technological innovation depends on a reliable supply of energy and the integrity of the electrical network of our country. ” But then, the cascade of decisions designed to restrict the most expensive – and, just as important, the fastest to build – sources of new energy foods. Trump’s team has ignored the pleads of real data centers to maintain the Biden era rules on renewable energies, which could have allowed them to build what they needed right away. We must, use a metaphor for the era of internal combustion, stamped on gas and brakes at the same time.

Although the economy 101 seems to indicate that the removal of the simplest source of new supply while demand increases simultaneously would inevitably lead to prices, the Trump administration rejected this argument in favor of saying Whoppers. Last Wednesday, the president went to Truth Social to insist that “the stupid and ugly windmills kill New Jersey. Energy prices increased by 28% this year, and not enough electricity to take care of the state. Stop the windmills! ” In fact, however, the windmills planned for the shore of Jersey were canceled, thanks to the administration. The whole state currently has only six wind turbines, generating nine megawatts of power, which, as the American Power Power Association points out, represents 0.03% of state energy production. Be that as it may, it is not wind – in fact, states with high levels of wind energy, including the very red states of Dakota from the North and South, Wyoming and Oklahoma, have some of the lowest electrical rates in the country.

The bet of the administration seems to be that he can retain renewable powers in this country – and maybe that can. But even here, its scope is somewhat limited: Texas, with very few public land, continues to lead the nation to install a new clean energy. And, apart from our borders, the sun rush continues tirelessly, which matters because Trump, in its energy energy directive, also called on the United States to export more fuel, in order to “create jobs and economic prosperity for forgotten Americans in the current economy, to improve the trade balance of the United States, to help our country to compete with the relationships with hostile foreign powers, to strengthen Assemblies and partners, and to support international peace and security ”. This can be a major challenge. We learned last month that China had installed two hundred twelve gigawatts of new solar energy in the first six months of the year, against twelve in the United States; Consequently, its carbon emissions have started to drop, even if its economy continues to grow. (American emissions, on the other hand, have increased sharply during the same period.) And other nations follow the example of China: Indonesia, the fourth most populous country, announced the plans last week for a hundred solar gigawatts over the next five years. For what? Because it is so much cheaper than managing diesel generators who currently provide a large part of the rural electricity in this country. “The estimated level cost of electricity (LCOE) for this system is about $ 0.12 to $ 0.15 / kWh over the next 25 years, compared to $ 0.20 to $ 0.40 / kWh for a diesel generator,” said the head of an Energy transition group in Jakarta in Jakarta in Jakarta In Jakarta to Jakarta in Jakarta, Jakarta, Jakarta, the Energy Transition based on Jakarta, Pv review.

Figures like this convinced the International Energy Agency that advanced oil consumption on this planet cannot be far away; The Trump administration’s response was, as in other cases, trying to play with the data. He is currently putting pressure on the IEA (set up by this environmental radical Henry Kissinger in the nineteen years in response to the OPEC Shocks at petroleum prices) to dismiss one of its best officials and replace it with someone who will disturb the line of the White House which requires fossil fuels will continue to climb for decades. “They want to bring agents there, whether career or politicians, who can really move the needle,” said an unidentified lobbyist Politico. “They are going to have someone they trust and this person will fight from the inside.”

However, you can only get out with this kind of maneuver for a while, and the administration license can run out. A fascinating indicator: the world’s hedge funds seem to place their bets on solar energy. Since the Liberation Day, Bloomberg has reported earlier this month, the main index of renewable funds had increased eighteen percent, while oil and gas shares had dropped by 4%. “If we will continue to grow in developed and emerging economies, we will need a lot of energy,” said an analyst. “A large part of marginal energy growth in the past 10 years has come from renewable energies and it is difficult to see why it will not continue.”