Trump’s Attempt to Crush Clean Energy; not going as planned

Donald Trump has wielded the full might of his administration to crush America’s progress and leadership in clean and renewable energy deployment. What Trump has falsely called a “scam” and “stupid” goes beyond opinion and is without foundation, it defies reality, and equally important, denies the proven benefits of America, and the world’s, clean and renewable energy adoption.

Meanwhile, Trump’s assault on the reality and benefits of clean and renewable energy is just not going to plan, no matter how much he uses his office and power to tilt the energy table in favor of fossil fuels, when the sky was the limit, and the halelon days of .

In March, the US generated more of its electricity from renewable sources, primarily solar and wind than it did via gas. This is the first time Clean Energy has surpassed the planet-heating and polluting fossil fuel energy sector nationally. While the finding is just one month, March 2026, it follows a record established in 2025 for Renewable Energy’s growing market dominance. The pipeline of new power coming online in the US is overwhelmingly Green Energy this year, with 93% of all electricity capacity added in 2026 set to come from Solar, Wind and Batteries with just 7% of electricity projected to be derived from burning fossil fuels — now dangerously overheating our world.

Clean Energy Market Optimism; boosted by results

The undaunted pace of the renewables rollout comes as the Trump administration’s attempts to stymie the industry have floundered in court.

Last week, a federal court in Massachusetts blocked a slew of Trump’s anti-renewables actions, such as barring solar and wind projects on federal land. This follows the resumption of five major offshore wind farms, a form of energy the president has long reviled as “ugly”, that the administration had ordered to halt.

All of this has boosted optimism among clean energy advocates who have felt under siege during Trump’s second term.

“There is no truth to the death of the clean energy industry in the United States – in fact, just the opposite,” said Peter Davidson, chief executive of Aligned Climate Capital, a clean energy investor. “That’s by essentially every metric you can look at,” he added, pointing to growing electric vehicle sales as well as the escalating deployment of renewables.

Wind, solar and batteries are now far cheaper and quicker to construct than gas and coal plants, causing a market “tipping point” that Trump cannot reverse, according to Davidson. “They cannot change the trajectory,” he said. “They can try and delay it. But the battle for the generation of electricity is over and renewables and storage have won.”

The clean energy industry still has to contend with an uncertain, volatile political environment as well as logjams that delay projects from being connected to a grid that still struggles to move clean power around the country. But fears of Trump-inspired destruction have somewhat receded.

“I’m not nearly as pessimistic as I was last summer,” said Jon Powers, co-founder of CleanCapital, a solar and battery storage company. “The administration way overplayed their hand on this. They are not where the American people are and they’re having to come back to where we are.”

Some cracks have seemingly started to appear in Republican hostility to clean energy, too, with the president’s chief pollster in February finding more than two-thirds of Republican voters support solar power.

Leah Qusba, chief executive of GoodPower, a clean energy advocacy group, said her organization’s polling found just 40% of Republican voters approve of Trump’s handling of rising energy costs. “That’s a huge red flag for the Trump administration,” Qusba said. “The momentum is undeniable. The folks that we work with, they’re not stopping. If anything, this has rallied people.”

The US’s budding clean energy sector had been left shellshocked by Trump’s hostility after he returned to the White House and enacted sweeping rollbacks to environmental rules in a bid to bolster the fossil fuel interests who donated heavily to his presidential campaign.

Trump’s losing war against renewable energy; truth, results, and benefits prove formidable obstacles

“We aren’t allowing any windmills to go up and we don’t want the solar panels,” Trump said last year. “Fossil fuel is the thing that works.”

Trump has called clean energy technology “garbage” and routinely dismissed the established science of climate change, more recently described by scientists and policy makers (mostly outside the United States) as a “Climate Crisis” and the result of the global burning of coal, oil and gas.

Republicans in Congress aided this onslaught by tearing up tax incentives that had kickstarted new clean energy investment, mostly in rural conservative areas. The result has been hundreds of paused or canceled projects even as electricity demand has increased in the US due to the advance of artificial intelligence, an industry the administration has championed.

Trump has even taken to handing taxpayer money to energy companies to stop them proceeding with agreed wind projects, which the administration has labeled unreliable in contrast to fossil fuels, which have been cast as irreplaceable.

“I’m pretty confident coal will lead the world in global electricity production when I die,” Chris Wright, Trump’s energy secretary, told Congress last week in his push to advance Trump’s agenda on behalf of dirtiest of all fossil fuels, “Coal is critically important to the world” Wright said.

Recent market reports share a common finding; Renewable Energy overtook coal as as the world’s largest source of electricity last year.

Conclusion

Trump has urged countries to ditch what he calls the “green energy scam” but, ironically, the war he and Israel launched upon Iran has instead pushed countries to accelerate their transition away from the whip-sawing costs of oil and gas.