{"id":21056,"date":"2025-09-14T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21056\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:28:12","slug":"us-wind-and-solar-are-headed-for-a-record-year-despite-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21056\/","title":{"rendered":"US Wind and Solar Are Headed for a Record Year Despite Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Trump administration has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-24\/us-green-project-cancellations-hit-22-billion-in-first-half\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">slashing green energy<\/a> incentives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-26\/orsted-is-feeling-the-brunt-of-trump-s-loathing-for-wind-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">freezing the construction <\/a>of wind farms and ordering coal-burning power plants to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-02-11\/us-should-stop-closure-of-coal-fired-power-plants-wright-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">keep running<\/a> longer than planned. And yet, more American homes and businesses are getting their power from renewable sources than ever before \u2014 and in greater amounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In June, almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/electricity\/monthly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">one-quarter<\/a> of US power generation was green, up from 18% in the year-earlier period, according to data compiled from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">the US Energy Information Administration<\/a>. The question now is whether the trend continues with President Donald Trump back in the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has been slashing green energy incentives, freezing the construction of wind farms and ordering coal-burning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2127,11507,8856,246,18447,61,60,5455,14849,18602,3400,82,9904,18603,3591],"class_list":["post-21056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-construction","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-environment","tag-green","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-biden","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-power-plants","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science","tag-texas","tag-utilities","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}