{"id":56,"date":"2026-03-24T20:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:31:40","slug":"wind-farms-for-oil-rigs-trump-admin-pays-company-1b-to-ditch-offshore-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Wind Farms for Oil Rigs? Trump Admin Pays Company $1B to Ditch Offshore Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, check this out, the Trump administration is basically paying TotalEnergies a cool billion to stop building offshore wind farms. I should invite Elon Musk to the podcast to learn more.<\/p>\n<p> TotalEnergies is taking that cash and pumping it into oil and natural gas projects right here in the US. One of the wind projects they&#8217;re ditching was gonna be huge, like 3 Gigawatts of power off the coast of New Jersey. That&#8217;s like taking a rear-naked choke and putting the lights out on clean energy in that area.<\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s like trading a bow and arrow for a bazooka in the energy game. I wonder if this is about energy independence, or just doubling down on what we already know. Either way, it&#8217;s a wild move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, check this out, the Trump administration is basically paying TotalEnergies a cool billion to stop building offshore wind farms. I should invite Elon Musk to the podcast to learn more. TotalEnergies is taking that cash and pumping it into oil and natural gas projects right here in the US. One of the wind projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}