Critics say that the 19 -year -old Trump war on wind power is “stimulating the bureaucracy to undermine US energy production.”

“I am not happy. I want to see the ocean, I don’t want to see the air mills,” Trump told BBC News in May 2006.

It took another five years to start Abeerneen Offshore Wind Farm to start the permit, and in 2012 with the golf stadium approaching its opening, Trump launched an attack on the media and comprehensive law against the wind project-a campaign that has proven that it did not succeed. Trump warned in the 2012 announcement: “Tourism and the beauty of your country will suffer in danger.”

Trump wrote in the 2013 Daily Mail article that he would fight, “As long as it requires – to hell if you have to do so – and spend what it takes to prevent this unjust and strange stain for our heritage.” By the time when he was running for the presidency for the first time in 2015, Trump was negatively over the wind or “air mills” more than 130 times.

The Scottish wind farm opened in 2018, the Scottish wind farm opened in 2018 Strongly in his second term The American President.

Upon returning to Scotland in July, he stressed: “We will not allow the construction of a mill mill in the United States. They are killing us.” Trump added August 20 to the social truth that he “will not agree” with wind or solar energy projects. “The days of stupidity ended in the United States of America !!!” to publish.

While Trump may not prevent all new wind turbines installed in the United States, he is definitely trying.

Regardless of a quick set of tax credits for wind and solar projects in a beautiful beautiful bill signed in July, the Trump administration increased its attacks on wind-solar-energy-full war, including everything except a ban on wind and solar energy on federal lands, recently checking the turbines, the validity of the leave, and its validity, Its shelters, panels, panels, panels, panels, and painful panels. Short -term credits were eliminated after 2027.

It is likely that you will now go through wind projects or solar energy through three levels of federal review, including personally by Interior Minister Doug Burgum, who said in August that “the huge, unreliable energy projects, prevent America from achieving American energy dominance.” These reviews include the Secretary’s level of many proposed on private lands. Earlier this month, the administration canceled the Wava Ridge Wind Massive project in Idahu, where Yanging was approved last year.

While Trump has long despised wind turbines, it only made it a higher political priority in 2025. More wind projects were built during the first period of Trump’s first state than the Biden administration. Only now although energy demand in the United States rises – thanks to the mutation of the artificial intelligence data center – this happens only when renewable energy is compensated.

The average cost of the electricity bill increased by 7 % on an annual basis as of May, according to the Ministry of Energy, and is expected to continue to rise.

“It is a victory for polarization over pragmatism,” said Jason Grumit, CEO of American Public Prosecution Company. luck. “What is confusing the mind is that after eliminating the subsidies, the administration then attacked the federal states and the red tape bucket to oppose projects that are actively built.”

“Double” executive

The settlement at the last minute in the “Big Witness” focused on maintaining renewable energy tax credits at the present time-but quickly rotated.

To qualify, projects must be exploded by July 4, 2026, or their completion by the end of 2027. The key is actually on the ground by next summer because a few of them started after July 2026, which is likely to end by the end of the year 2027.

Once the omnibus spending law is passed, the Trump administration went to work, making it difficult to qualify for tax credits – specifically what is important as disintegration. These revised rules were completed on August 15.

It was customary for developers to pay only 5 % of the costs at the forefront to lock tax credits. Instead, the base of 5 % is eliminated for everyone except for small solar farms, which requires all others to prove that “physical work of a great nature” has started in or outside the site, such as excavation of the foundation.

Grumet is called a “dual tablet” to change the bases immediately after reaching a deal that was already difficult in the clean energy sector. “This is mainly the” last America’s policy “.

Fear was that the administration would significantly change the rules, but some Republican Senators – including John Cortis from Utah and Chuck Grassley from Iowa – were rehabilitated to confirm some of Trump’s candidates until the rules were issued. After all, most of the new wind farms and solar energy are built in the so -called red states.

It is also annoying to this industry new bases for foreigners to punish projects to use Chinese parts in the manufacture of renewable energy sources that are dominated by Chinese supply chains.

Other regulatory aspects are likely to be worse for the industry as well. For example, the inner Borgum Department went forward on August 1 to also include “improved” reviews of the energy line transport projects that are considered to help enable wind or solar energy projects.

This request came days after the energy department Eliminated the loan guarantee for Fast grain belt transfer project 800 miles from Kansas to Indiana.

Kristina Hayes, the executive director of the Americans of a clean power network, has told luck The transfer move adds more “uncertainty” when the nation quickly needs more energy infrastructure, especially when the power lines are unnecessary for the electricity resulting from the wind or burning coal.

“There is no breach of sorting for the electrons. Once the electron is on the system, it is like all other electrons,” he said, following the Harry Potter’s signal. “Not so,” Oh, you are a grayfindor electron, you are a renewable electron, you are Hufflepuf, you are charcoal. “This is not how this works.”

The increasing obstacles

The most treacherous changes in wind and solar energy are likely to be explicit political reviews, but road barriers created behind the drops: federal web sites remain dark, canceled meetings, and phone calls without repeatedly answering.

“In order to allow a project, you have to interact with the federal government,” said Grumite. “You are a developer, you have passed 63 steps from 64 steps, and suddenly you cannot get your final meeting. Now future permits will be politicized at the level of the Minister of Ministers for everything in terms of setting a fence to how to create a road.

For example, Hayes said that Doug Elon Musk’s discounts contributed to the employees of the Ministry of Energy for licenses and permits between coordinated agencies (Citap) volatile from about 60 people to six – critical to determine the transmission sites and allow them.

Grumet likened the process by going to the Car Department of the Soviet Union, which dates back to the 1950s. “The government is difficult enough when everyone works on solutions; it is impossible when the government works to create problems.”

All wrong claims

Trump has repeatedly launched “air mills” of a green energy fraud and accused them of killing birds and marine life. He falsely said that noise can cause cancer. But mostly, wind turbines hate their beauty.

On the other hand, air pollution caused by fossil fuel can be cancer, and American wildlife service has found that oil drilling caused three times the birds’ dates more than wind turbines, which were responsible for less than 0.01 % of the death of birds caused by humans.

Outside, the cats, the main cause of bird deaths is building and glass collisions, including the Trump towers in New York and around the world. Trump’s Aberdeen Golf complex was also built on the sand dunes that include multiple types of endangered birds.

“The American audience sees the idea that the wind blade is a carcinogen,” Gromit said. “The issue that the president really focuses is aesthetics. This is a question of personal opinion if the president believes that staring at the natural gas facility is a source of American beauty, and stare in wind turbines is an attack on the scene.”

So, why now? First, this Trump administration is more full of party players who were ready to hit the ground. Second, the power battle has become increasingly more political.

“Between 2020 and 2024, I think that the entire energy discussion has become more partisan, and the power of wind, in particular, was closed in the imagination of” the United States in exchange for them “about the way America works.”

Yes, it is a difficult time for renewable energy in America. Less number of projects will come. The extent of this decline is unclear. But new natural gas plants and nuclear facilities will take to build from five to 10 years. Retired coal factories will extend their life, but only temporary. The new power generation is needed more quickly, and the sources of renewable energy, especially solar energy, will remain, most of the gap are filled in the short term-with or without tax credits.

“We are unbearable in a more efficient and lower carbon energy system,” said Grumet. “The president’s actions certainly have slowed down two years, but the trend will not change.”