The US presidential administration Donald Trump froze the approval of wind and solar energy projects on federal lands and ponds for at least 60 days, writes Datacenter Dynamics. At one disposal, the government is prohibited from concluding lease agreements, contracts or “any other agreements necessary to ensure the development of renewable energy sources”. In another order, the US Department of Finance is prescribed to freeze new lease agreements for sea wind power plants.
It was also instructed to check the impact of such power plants on the environment in cooperation with ministries of energy, agriculture and trade. Although solar and ground-based wind power plants can still be built on private lands, the approval of federal authorities is now required for sea wind power plants. Trump told Fox News: “We don’t need windmills … Do you know what else people don’t like? These huge sunny fields. ” In fact, Trump opposed the initiatives of his predecessor.
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Trump was previously against the use of sea wind power plants, claiming that they kill birds and whales. Although chicken energy is indeed associated with some increase in the mortality of birds, the National Oceanic and atmospheric research of the USA (Noaa) claims that there is no evidence of the relationship between their use and increase in the mortality of whales, The Hill noted.
There are fears that the decree may entail the abolition of some lease agreements, as well as the cancellation of projects of some states to use renewable energy sources. For example, New Jersey planned to deploy 11 GW of marine wind energy by 2040, and New York hoped to launch 9 GW of sea wind plants by 2035. Ground and marine wind energy supplies about 10% of electricity in the USA. This is the largest sector of renewable energy, in which about 131 thousand people work.
Last week, Trump said that the United States lacks electricity to meet the needs of the country. Therefore, he gave “green light” to the development of the extraction of fossil fuel and generation based on it. According to him, it is urgent to find as many energy sources for AI SCD, even coal will fit.