President Donald Trump’s scorched-earth approach toward renewable energy can offer inspiration for a future Democratic administration looking to retake the initiative to cut emissions, according to Jennifer Granholm, energy secretary under former President Joe Biden.
In other words, she said Monday at a BloombergNEF summit in San Francisco, “don’t be afraid to break some eggs.”
Such an approach would create another wave of whiplash for a domestic power industry struggling to secure new power capacity to meet surging data center demand. Trump, of course, favors traditional fuel sources, including natural gas, while Democrats want clean sources, including solar and wind.
Granholm oversaw ...
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