Trump, French and wind farms
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The Dept. of the Interior said it will pay nearly $1B to stop wind projects.
The Trump administration will pay an energy developer almost $1 billion in taxpayer funds to cancel the federal leases for two offshore wind projects.
A Rhode Island renewable energy company is planning a battery project that would store offshore wind power for use when electric demand is high.
Dominion Energy's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), the US's largest wind farm, has sent its first power to the grid.
TotalEnergies agreed with the US Interior Department to relinquish leases offshore New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, and will no longer develop offshore wind projects in the US.
Revolution Wind, a joint state offshore energy endeavor, is officially generating power.
The Trump Department of the Interior secured a landmark agreement with energy giant TotalEnergies to redirect nearly $1 billion away from "unreliable" and "ideological" wind projects.
After years of false starts and amid an acute regional energy crunch, large-scale onshore wind power could finally take off in Maine in 2026. Utility regulators in five New England states are