This week, the Energy Department has canceled the $ 8 billion prize – the action was taken by the Trump administration as an attempt to protect fossil fuel at a redemption cost. However, the documents obtained by TechCrunch show that reality is complicated than that ordinary message.
The company did not publish a list of the canceled awards, but TechCrunch received a copy and analyzed 321 agreements that DOE wanted to go back undone.
Although not all projects focus on renewable energy.
Listed in two documents, for a $ 300 million For Colorado State University and for the other $ 210 million At the Institute of Gas Technology, oil and gas producers will help reduce the emissions of large and small methane from their wells.
The Gas Technology Institute is a research and development agency that provides most of the natural gas industry. A dozen awards of the team were canceled, according to the document, a total of $ 417 million in total.
Carbon capture and removal also took hits, out of the 21 projects, about 10 dollars of about 200 million were canceled. Many are in the Harris-voting state, though that rubric does not explain the whole image.
“Three categories are popping up,” Erin Burns, Executive Director Carbon 180Tell TechCrunch. “Where are they located? Who are the partners in it? Are these projects going forward?”
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It is true that the states who voted for Kamala Harris in the last presidential election were the most affected by this step. California lost the most, canceled at least $ 2.2 billion contracts. Each of the Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Oregon have a $ half billion reward that has lost at least $ 309 million in New York State.
Those who voted for Trump canceled a single-digit worth of millions of dollars worth of contracts.
One of the biggest rewards that was canceled was granted in the state of Minnesota $ 467 millionThe Received award as part of the bilateral infrastructure law in 2021, which was intended to reconstruct electric grid interconnection across seven states of Mid West. When completed, it was about 28 GHz new production capabilities, most solar and air unlocks. In the context, drawing the world’s data center -flat 58 gigwatsAccording to the Goldman shot.
Another Worth $ 630 million Similarly, California’s electric grid can be rebuilt, examining advanced conductors and dynamic line rating devices to increase the infection capacity. The project was effectively a showcase for grid modernization that could be applied across the country.
Nevertheless, another grid modernization project can install an infection line at Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon. There are tribes About half a dozen Renewable projects are waiting for better grid connection, which is now canceled $ 250 million Rewards were enabled. The project also will have strong fiber-optic lines along the transmission line, which brings high-speed data in a rural part of the state.
Carbon 180 Management Policy Advisor Courtney Hallnes said, “Surviving recipients in the Blue State probably get more integrated with the administration and are participating in more priority industries for this administration.”
Some small prizes may be made anyway. Burns said, “This is how the United States reaches this way.” “Take a lot of shots in the goal because you are not sure what is going to move on, technically, economically, economically. And so you take a few shots at a low cost.”
Still, the government supports and policies seem to be pulling parts for steps that are about to be more guessed as Canada. “You’re going to see more of it, and it is affecting the private sector investment,” said Burns.
“I think this is a greater question,” Halls added, “Our Energy Department has some form of the stability of the Department of Persian and their skills to be part of the US business.”