Electric Bills!

How many times have you heard that from candidates this election cycle, promising to bring down your electric bill? But ask them this: “Why aren’t you speaking out against Trump’s blocking of wind and solar power?”

Wind and solar power frozen out of Trump permitting push

Reuter

By Nichola Groom

December 10, 2025

Summary

• Power demand seen rising 32% by 2030, driven by AI expansion
• Federal delays threaten solar and wind projects on public and private lands
• Renewable plants are quicker to bring online, but Trump says less reliable

U.S. President Donald Trump's freeze on approvals for major onshore wind and solar projects is leaving thousands of megawatts of clean power capacity in limbo at a time of soaring demand for electricity, a Reuters review of permitting data and interviews with industry officials shows.

Just one solar project has been approved on federal lands since Trump took office in January, and none have been permitted since July when Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered that all new decisions related to renewable energy projects require his personal sign-off.

Why aren’t politicians talking about Trump’s blocking of renewables at the behest of coal companies? 

AP News reported,

Democratic attorneys general from California and New York sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its plans to buy back offshore wind leases as President Donald Trump seeks to discourage the expansion of wind energy in favor of fossil fuels.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he is suing over removal of a project off his state’s coast planned by Chicago-based Invenergy. The Trump administration said in June that it’s buying back the company’s U.S. offshore wind leases for four wind projects on the East and West coasts.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, meanwhile, led seven states in suits seeking to block the Invenergy deal and another proposal with Bluepoint Wind, which agreed in April to end a wind farm under development off the New York and New Jersey coast.

The deals would hand energy companies $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars in exchange for the cancellation of multiple projects. ln all, the Trump administration has pledged nearly $4 billion to companies to walk away from projects across the country.

Why is he doing it? Why is he pushing coal? Last December, at a rally in coal country, he said in a speech…

So we only call coal, clean, beautiful coal. Is that right, fellas, because coal needs a little public relations help. It's a very powerful -- it's a very powerful fuel. It's used by China. You know, China makes all our windmills but they don't have any wind farms. It's a little interesting, isn't it? Wind is the worst.

It's a big -- it's a big -- that's a scam. They ruin your valleys. They ruin your peaks. They -- and the most expensive energy. The only ones that get rich are the developers who make a fortune. You have to change the windmills. And most of them are made in China, but China has very few wind farms. You know why?

Because they're smart. You know what they do have, a lot of coal. They love coal. So that's OK. But we have clean, beautiful coal and we brought it back into vogue. We have nuclear. We have oil and gas. We have sort of everything. We don't want -- we don't approve windmills. We don't approve it. I'm sorry.

Why is he pushing coal? Because the coal industry is a major backer of Republicans.

But now, with oil prices skyrocketing, buying wind and solar contracts is driving up the cost of electricity and you don’t hear candidates addressing it!