America's wind power industry is one of the fastest-growing U.S. energy sources. But there's an issue. President Trump hates wind turbines.
Now, wind industry leaders and supporters fear that the federal government, under Trump, may be pulling back from what had been years of encouragement for climate-friendly wind.
Interior Department spokesman Nicholas Goodwin said offshore energy remains"an important component" in the Trump administration's energy strategy. But the strategy includes"ensuring activities are safe and environmentally responsible," Goodwin said in a statement. "That I think is sort of a new bar," for the federal government to require developers to assess the impact of not just their projects but everyone's, said Stephanie McClellan, a researcher and director of the Special Initiative on Offshore Wind at the University of Delaware."That worries everybody."
But technological advances since then mean wind turbines can rise much farther offshore, mostly out of sight, and produce energy more efficiently and competitively. Climate change — and the damage it will do these same coastal communities — also has many looking at wind differently now. "Cape Cod has always been at the end of the energy supply line, or at least ever since we lost our dominance with the whale oil industry" after the 19th century, the community college instructor said."So this is an opportunity for Cape Cod to generate its own energy."
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