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“We lose more than half of everything that we expected to be able to build with the combination of market forces and proactive policy,” said Amanda Levin, NRDC’s director of policy analysis.
Published Aug. 26, 2026
Power generating wind turbines tower over the rural landscape on July 5, 2025, near Pomeroy, Iowa. The Trump administration’s energy policy could cause the U.S to lose between 390 GW and 540 GW of new wind, solar and energy storage capacity over the next decade, according to projections from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
