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Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects

It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.

Β© Joshua A. Bickel/Associated Press

The Trump administration has now struck deals energy developers totaling more than $2.5 billion to cancel offshore wind leases.
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Renewable Groups Ask Courts to End Pentagon’s β€˜Total Halt’ of Wind Power

More than 100 planned wind farms in 21 states are now stalled indefinitely as the Pentagon delays military reviews once seen as routine.

Β© Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times

The freeze affects 41 wind projects in Texas, which produces more wind power than any other state in the U.S., as well as projects in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.
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