{"id":290320,"date":"2026-04-28T21:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290320\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:34:13","slug":"trump-administrations-wasteful-deal-to-abandon-california-offshore-wind-project-undermines-clean-homegrown-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290320\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration\u2019s wasteful deal to abandon California offshore wind project undermines clean, homegrown power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Trump administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/interior-announces-two-historic-agreements-promote-affordable-reliable-energy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> another wasteful deal to pay an energy company nearly $900 million in taxpayer funds to abandon its offshore wind projects off the coast of New York and New Jersey, as well as off the coast of California.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">California is the only West Coast state with offshore wind leases. One of those five leases, the Golden State Wind project, was expected to generate enough power for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goldenstatewind.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about 1.1 million homes<\/a>. Canceling it does not just remove a major source of clean electricity \u2014 it also puts significant economic benefits at risk. The project was set to deliver $24 million for workforce training and to build out a domestic supply chain \u2014 funding the state has already committed \u2014 with the offshore wind industry in California projected to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slcprdwordpressstorage.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpressdata\/2023\/07\/AB525-Workforce-Readiness-Plan_acc.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">create roughly 8,000 high road jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cCalifornia invested in offshore wind because it will deliver reliable, affordable clean power to meet our state\u2019s growing energy needs, while creating new jobs,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/people\/michael-colvin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Colvin<\/a>, Director, California Energy Program at Environmental Defense Fund.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cInstead of allowing much-needed homegrown power to get built, the Trump administration is wastefully spending taxpayer money to pressure a company to walk away from it. Obstructing clean energy projects is not energy dominance, it makes us weaker and more reliant on unpredictable fossil fuel markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAs families face soaring bills driven by fossil fuel price spikes and as power demand from data centers, industry and homes keeps rising \u2014 we need to bring more reliable clean energy onto the grid with stable, predictable costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A diverse pool of clean energy resources \u2014 including power from offshore wind \u2014 will allow California to better manage extreme weather events and meet rising electricity demand, while continuing to lower pollution statewide.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a day-ahead\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/media\/coming-soon-race-create-west-wide-power-market-begins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West-wide electricity power takes shape<\/a>, offshore wind will also become a particularly important source of clean power that California can sell across state borders, improving affordable and reliable power supply for communities across the West.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cCalifornia is the gateway for many states to access offshore wind,\u201d\u00a0Colvin said. \u201cBlocking it here will lead to even higher electricity costs and more pollution for millions of Americans in the West.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Trump administration\u00a0announced another wasteful deal to pay an energy company nearly $900 million in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33596,7,9,8,29251,9190,20,35931],"class_list":["post-290320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-advocacy","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-clean-air","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate","tag-energy-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}