Offshore wind does not have the future in the US under Trump, says interior secretary

This week there is no future on the offshore wind as a source of electricity production in the US under the Trump administration, this week at a conference on the energy conference in Italy at the energy conference.

“There is no future for offshore winds in this administration because it is too expensive and not reliable enough,” Burgum said at the audience at the Hastekh conference in Milan on Wednesday.

This is the most clear statement from a high -ranking official of Trump administration that the president is seeking to close the charged seawater in the United States, oversees leasing and allowing offshore wind farms in the federal waters as head of the Interior Department.

President Donald Trump banned new rental for offshore windpills On his first day, as a “temporary” order through the executive order. Trump also ordered the resolution to reconsider, but the industry hoped that the projects that were being built would be allowed to move forward.

But the department of interior “deeply looks” at five naval winds, which are already being built in the US, said Burgum on Wednesday, without naming projects.

The offshore wind farms under construction are a revolutionary wind from the ailleland; Vineyard Wind 1 from Massachusetts; Virginia’s coastal offshore wind; Wind up to New York; And Empire Wind also from New York.

“Yes, they were allowed, but they were moved through a very fast ideological process of permission,” Burgum said at a conference in Italy.

The Department of Internal Affairs ordered a Danish renewable company stop the design Revolutionary wind on August 22, citing national security issues. According to Orsted, the project is fully authorized and 80% complete with billions of dollars.

In April, the internal affairs department issued an order for termination for Empire Wind, but eventually allowed the project restore the design In May after obviously concluded a transaction about the new power of natural gas.

Burgum said CNBC Brian Sullivan This week, when Trump’s administration is discussing the Governors of the ORTS and New England on the revolutionary wind, although he did not say that the project could restart the work.

“I can’t say for sure, because some of these projects are a literal train crash in terms of their economy,” Burgum CNBC said. “If we have completed them, we will just record billions and billions of taxpayers who can go to the hedge fond.”

CEOs renewable energy sources In August, CNBC said that Trump administration attacks would lead to a power crunch, which increases electricity prices.

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