{"id":24102,"date":"2025-03-17T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24102"},"modified":"2025-03-17T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T09:26:27","slug":"wind-and-solar-firms-have-a-pitch-for-trump-youre-going-to-need-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24102","title":{"rendered":"Wind and Solar Firms Have a Pitch for Trump: \u2018You\u2019re Going to Need Us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Electricity demand is soaring and gas-burning power plants are in short supply. The renewable industry sees an opening \u2014 even if Washington is souring on green energy.<\/p>\n

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As President Trump works to blunt the growth of wind and solar power and expand fossil fuel production in the United States, the renewable energy industry is making a new pitch: You need us.<\/p>\n

Wind and solar developers are increasingly pointing out that America\u2019s demand for electricity is soaring<\/a>, driven by a boom in data centers, and it\u2019s proving difficult to build enough new gas plants to supply all the extra power that the nation needs.<\/p>\n

Wind, solar and battery storage are relatively quick and cheap to construct. That could help avert energy shortages and keep prices low, an argument that renewable energy firms are making to policymakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur message to the administration is, let\u2019s be realistic about this,\u201d John Ketchum, the chief executive of NextEra Energy, one of the country\u2019s largest power producers, said in an interview. \u201cIf you take renewables and storage off the table, we\u2019re going to force electricity prices to the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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These are tough times, politically, for the renewable energy industry. Mr. Trump has been a blistering critic of wind turbines for years and openly promotes fossil fuels like oil and gas, riding into office on a promise to \u201cdrill, baby, drill.\u201d He has halted federal approvals for wind farms<\/a>, placed a moratorium on large solar arrays<\/a> on public lands and frozen billions of dollars in spending<\/a> for battery factories and electric grid upgrades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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NextEra Energy\u2019s chief executive John Ketchum, speaking in Houston last week.<\/span>Kaylee Greenlee\/Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Electricity demand is soaring and gas-burning power plants are in short supply. The renewable industry sees an opening \u2014 even if Washington is souring on green energy.As President Trump works to blunt the growth of wind and solar power and expand fossil fuel production in the United States, the renewable energy industry is making a new pitch: You need us.Wind and solar developers are increasingly pointing out that America\u2019s demand for electricity is soaring, driven by a boom in data centers, and it\u2019s proving difficult to build enough new gas plants to supply all the extra power that the nation needs.Wind, solar and battery storage are relatively quick and cheap to construct. That could help avert energy shortages and keep prices low, an argument that renewable energy firms are making to policymakers.\u201cOur message to the administration is, let\u2019s be realistic about this,\u201d John Ketchum, the chief executive of NextEra Energy, one of the country\u2019s largest power producers, said in an interview. \u201cIf you take renewables and storage off the table, we\u2019re going to force electricity prices to the moon.\u201dThese are tough times, politically, for the renewable energy industry. Mr. Trump has been a blistering critic of wind turbines for years and openly promotes fossil fuels like oil and gas, riding into office on a promise to \u201cdrill, baby, drill.\u201d He has halted federal approvals for wind farms, placed a moratorium on large solar arrays on public lands and frozen billions of dollars in spending for battery factories and electric grid upgrades.NextEra Energy\u2019s chief executive John Ketchum, speaking in Houston last week.Kaylee Greenlee\/ReutersWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24104,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24105,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102\/revisions\/24105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}