Tag: solar

President Trump has famously called renewable energy a “scam,” and he has aggressively rolled back incentives for renewable power while emphasizing fossil fuel production. Yet he is presiding over a period of record expansion in renewable energy. It is overtaking coal in monthly generation, rivaling natural gas, and dominating new capacity additions. What’s more, by launching a war against Iran that has upended global oil supplies, President Trump has accelerated the trend toward renewables and could mark a permanent shift away from fossil fuels. The result is a striking disconnect: political rhetoric anchored in a fossil-fuel past, alongside an energy system rapidly moving beyond i... Read More