Interior Department
Trump's nominees for energy and interior secretary cleared the ENR committee on bipartisan votes and now head to the floor where Senate leadership has been working to approve his cabinet picks.
Minutes after he was sworn in as 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump signaled his intention to rapidly increase production of oil and gas.
The 2,600 GW of wind, solar and storage sitting in interconnection queues across the U.S. represent a major imbalance in energy resources that could lead to brownouts or blackouts, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) said during his Senate confirmation hearing.
With days left in his administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at siting and permitting cutting-edge artificial intelligence data centers on federal land by 2027.
The data center dilemma centers first on a familiar mismatch of timescales. Utilities and their regulators tend to plan based on the small, incremental demand growth. But development and the power demand it generates move at ever-increasing digital speed.
President-elect Trump said he would halt offshore wind power development, but how big of an impact he will have on the industry remains to be seen.
As they prepare to leave office, Biden administration officials remain confident that IRA funds already committed by DOE will be impossible to claw back by the incoming Trump administration.
Renewable energy industry analysts, representatives and environmental advocates say New York is in a better position than many others to make progress on its renewable energy goals during a second Trump administration.
Requests that two developers submitted this year have prompted BOEM to start planning a 2026 offshore wind auction in the Gulf of Mexico.
Federal regulators continue to advance offshore wind energy development, issuing a key approval for a Maryland proposal and smoothing the way for as many as six future projects in the New York Bight.
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