"Trump said he’ll end offshore wind “on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent industry."
"Few clean energy sectors have been threatened as directly by Donald Trump as offshore wind. The president-elect vowed on the campaign trail to end offshore wind development via executive order “on day one” of his second term.
Trump has nurtured a hatred for the industry since at least 2006, when he began fighting a wind project off the coast of his golf course in Scotland. He waged a years-long legal battle to block it and ultimately lost before the U.K. Supreme Court in 2015.
But could the Trump administration really stop offshore wind in its tracks?
Experts say Trump won’t be able to deliver on his campaign promise to kill off the industry in a single day, but his administration could stop some development and make things much harder for proposed and planned projects. This, in turn, could stall development of a clean energy resource that is expected to be cheaper than fossil-fueled power once it scales up. That would be good news for power plants that want to protect their market share from cheaper and cleaner competition, but bad news for tens of millions of utility customers and the broader economy."
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