The US president-elect said Wednesday that he would try to ensure that “no windmills are built” under his watch.
Companies linked to the generation of wind energyfell on Wednesday after the president-elect of United States, Donald Trumpsaid he would try to make sure “don’t build windmills” under his mandate, criticizing the sector less than two weeks before his inauguration.
Trump’s most recent attack against the sector makes fear about the evolution of the US wind marketthe second largest in the world after China, during his second term, prompting investors in companies with interests at stake to sell.
The actions of the two largest developers of offshore wind farms in the world – the Danish Orsted and the German RWE -, as well as those of turbine manufacturers Siemens Energy, Nordex and Vestas They had losses between 2.9% and 7.3%.
“It is the most expensive energy that exists. “It is many, many times more expensive than clean natural gas, so we are going to try to have a policy where windmills are not built,” he said. trump about wind energy at a press conference at his Florida resort late Tuesday, calling wind turbines a disaster.
“They litter our country, they are scattered throughout the country as if they were throwing paper, as if they were throwing garbage in a field (…). They rust, they rot, they close, they fall (…) And they put new ones in the side because nobody wants to tear them down, because why would they tear them down? It is very expensive to tear them down,” he added.
The consequences of Trump’s statements
Fear of regulatory changes in the second term of trump has already caused companies to scrap, adjust or delay their expansion plans.
DNB Markets analyst Douglas Lindahl said it was unclear how Trump would implement his plans given the relevance of wind energy in large red states, such as Texas.
Source: Ambito
