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The Trump administration cuts to the clean energy industry led to 20,000 job losses in the United States and threatened nearly $ 70 billion in project investments, according to a climate defense group.
Climate Power warned that nearly 100 projects had been canceled, delayed or threatened since the November presidential election, potentially reversing manufacturing employment in the Biden administration.
40,000 other clean energy jobs are threatened because they are attached to projects suspended or linked to companies that have already obtained federal grants or loans that the Trump administration now wishes to reduce.
The losses of jobs carried out and potential are distributed in the solar, wind, hydrogen, critical minerals and batteries – with projects already canceled or threatened representing more than $ 71.24 billion in investment. Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Georgia are among the states faced with the greatest impact of potential job losses.
Democrats have seized the new figures, Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat in Georgia, saying that they were part of a “hemorrhage” of clean energy and “catastrophic” jobs for growth.
The US Energy Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The data arrives in the midst of an increasing concern concerning a weakening of the American economy, which contracted in the first quarter mainly due to the impact of prices.
Climate Power has helped finance an advertising campaign of $ 55 million in swing states in support of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris leading to the November elections. The majority of clean energy projects announced since former president Joe Biden adopted the law on the reduction of inflation in 2022 is located in the Republican Congress districts, worth just under 200 billion dollars.
Most clean energy projects are funded by tax credits will go, and the Republicans debate them from the budget.
Since President Donald Trump's second term started in January, the Ministry of the Interior ordered the cancellation of high -level projects such as Empire Wind, resulting in the loss of 1,000 jobs, published a series of executive decrees that recovered clean energy loans distributed under IRA and have made it possible to become unique for federal projects.
In February, Kore Power abandoned the plans for a $ 1 billion battery plant in Buckeye, the second largest city in Arizona by region, for which he obtained a loan of $ 850 million in the Ministry of Energy in 2023.
In the first quarter of 2025, the creation of clean energy jobs also decreased for the first quarter since the summer of 2022, with jobs ranging from 406,000 to the end of 2024 to 399,000 at the end of March.
Meanwhile, investment in factory has increased from more than $ 20 billion to $ 18 billion between the end of last year and February.
Earlier this month, Rhodium Group and Mit's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research has published research showing six.9.9 billion investment dollars have been canceled since January.
Companies already slowed down clean energy investment plans before the election of Trump, due to overproduction in China, the collapse of market prices and the slowdown in the demand for electric vehicles. In August, the Financial Times said that 40% of clean technology manufacturing projects supported by the IRA had been delayed, some of which are cities in the climate power report.
Additional Jamie Smyth and Amanda Chu reports in New York
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