Offshorewind is an industry -out industry. Until this week, after many canceled projects, we were ready to update. By 2030, the Biden administration had set a goal of deploying a 30 -Gigawatt project (increased about 150 times from the current wind power generation nationwide), and the state -level commitment is even higher. 。 However, President Donald Trump has long been nursing a clear rehabilitation of wind energy.
Monday, the first day of his inauguration, Trump Promise of campaign Waiting for the federal agency to judge, the company has issued a new permission of wind energy in the federal land and water area and a suspension of leasing sales. “We don’t want a windmill in this country,” he told Fox News.
As a result, it depended on the union and the low -income port community. Construction work from these projects You will be disappointed. Some coastal climate goals will be difficult to meet. And the prospects for grid reliability facing the national growth that are expected to be demand for energy is not bright.
In addition to the value of the climate as a form of energy that does not contain carbon, the offshore wind plays a useful role in the power network alongside solar energy and land wind. Like other renewable technology, its power is intermittent, but its availability depends on environmental factors that are different from those resources, so offshore -style can be considered a “storage form”. , Berkeley and former American science envoy.
Today’s sea area of ​​the United States has three operated wind plants off the coast of Road Island, New York and Virginia. Of these, only the South Folk Farm in New York is a large project. However, many other people are in various stages of development. And one of the main open questions about executive action is whether a project that has already been leases and permission is at risk. “I’m worried not only about future projects, but also about the current project,” said Cangmen.
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Executive actions not only affect the “rights based on the existing leases of the withdrawal area”, but also the “need to end or fix existing wind energy leases”. We are obliged to carry out reviews. “Legal infrastructure for such removal”.
One of these legal tools that Trump can use is simply dropping federal defense against permission in court.
The Marine Energy Management Bureau (Baum Bureau) is currently appealing for permission given to at least four wind power projects. Road Island Revolution, New York’s South Fork style, Virginia coastal wind, offshorewind project, Maryland.
Timothy Fox, a managing director of CLEARVIEW ENERGY PARTNERS, told Grist by e -mail, “the executive action is strongly suggested.” Encourage existing projects to submit the offshorewind enemies to submit additional legal issues.
According to Patrick Crowley, the president of Road Island AFL-CIO, there may be an incentive of the government’s rebuttal to avoid project defense. I want to charge it.
“Their legal calculations say,” If you simply fold the card, what to do with this institution’s authority? ” “In my experience, the federal government does not want to give up the authority it has.”
“If Bohm wants to approve offshore excavation, and if they give off their authority in a offshore style, it will make it possible for those who do not want offshore excavation to point out this decision as a precedent.” Is added.
Fox features this as a “fair discussion” and says, “If the Trump administration has a good ally as a applicant, if the court agrees, you can set up a precedent to set a high environmental bar in other energy departments. I agree (for example, oil and gas).
The administration can call a peculiar debate on the impact on the offshore environment and is not applied to excavation. This occurs mainly in different areas and has different ecological effects. “For example, the Trump administration has claimed that individual offshore wind projects and their cumulative impacts could adversely affect the right whale of the North Attake SPECIES. “Fox writes.
Like many people in the gust of the first day of Trump on the first day of the Trump, ambiguity creates uncertainty and leaves room for stakeholders in the wind industry.
“One of the ways to interpret what Trump is doing is to create a situation where he will eventually expand and expand the offshore wind industry,” clory. “If we learned something from Trump, he would trust the good things and would be responsible for bad things.”
