America’s Wind Crusade Hands an Industry to China

In almost every area of the energy transition, one country dominates: China. Wind power, where the People’s Republic still has less than half the global market, is a rare exception. President Donald Trump is doing his best to change that.

The administration last month cancelled an Orsted A/S project off the coast of Rhode Island that’s 80% complete and large enough to power 350,000 homes. It’s also working to stop a project off Maryland, roughly twice the size and due to begin construction next year. A third development offshore from New York was halted for a month earlier this year before a deal was agreed to restart it. On his first day in office, Trump banned all leasing of the US seabed for wind and excluded the technology from the government’s definition of “energy.”