Trump Vows to Create More Blackouts

[justaprogressive]

The House Freedom Caucus’s slide into irrelevance, after caving on their every demand on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, has been a small political solace during this dark time. But even that may be overstated, as the Trump administration has followed through on the HFC’s request to implement the bill in a way to make it impossible for most clean-energy projects to get into production.

The result will be higher electricity costs across the country. In the first four months of this year, solar and wind made up 95.7 percent of all new electrical generating capacity in the U.S., according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Utility-scale renewables were on track to be more plentiful on the grid than natural gas by 2029, based on current take-up rates.

But the stated Trump administration policy is now to make all future clean-energy projects as unprofitable as possible, at a time when energy demand is projected to soar. That will slow new generation of any kind to a trickle. You might as well call the new legislation the Blackout Law.

An executive order signed last week states that administration policy is to “strengthen” the repeal of wind and solar energy tax credits called for in the Blackout Law, and directs the Treasury Department to “strictly enforce” their termination. This is the result of a deal made for Freedom Caucus votes, offsetting the Senate’s weakening of the phaseout timelines for those tax credits.

https://prospect.org/environment/2025-07-14-trump-vows-to-create-more-blackouts/

[Nictuku]

1. I bet they use renewables to power their planned AI farms

It just makes sense. AI uses incredible amounts of Energy.