The US Department of Energy on Friday announced the cancellation of 24 clean energy projects totaling over $3.7 billion in federal financial assistance, citing economic and national security concerns. The move is part of a new federal energy direction under the Trump Administration and targets decisions made largely during the last weeks of President Joe Biden’s term.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement that the grants, issued by the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, failed to meet standards for economic viability, energy security, and return on investment for taxpayers.
“While the previous administration failed to conduct a thorough financial review before signing away billions of taxpayer dollars, the Trump administration is doing our due diligence to ensure we are utilizing taxpayer dollars to strengthen our national security, bolster affordable, reliable energy sources and advance projects that generate the highest possible return on investment,” Wright said.
Nearly 70% of the 24 canceled awards were signed between Election Day 2024 and President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025. Many were linked to carbon capture and sequestration or industrial decarbonization efforts, including projects in the cement, food, and energy sectors. No grants to Alaska were made during that period. Only $99 million had been disbursed when the decision was made.
High-profile recipients whose funding was withdrawn include Exxon Mobil’s hydrogen project in Baytown, Texas, and a Kraft Heinz decarbonization initiative.
In a press release, the DOE stated that the decision followed an “individualized financial review” guided by a Secretarial Memorandum issued earlier this month. That policy document, “Ensuring Responsibility for Financial Assistance,” outlined a case-by-case review process for DOE grants to “identify waste of taxpayer dollars, protect America’s national security, and advance President Trump’s commitment to unleash affordable, reliable and secure energy.”
Many of the rescinded grants were part of climate initiatives backed by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Earlier this year, over $130 million in grants allocated to clean energy projects in rural Alaska were frozen following an executive order from President Donald Trump.
Praise the Lord, finally some respect for the taxpayer dollars!!
The amount of fraud and corruption in the Biden administration and fellow travelers is astounding. I wonder what our senators were doing during all this time. Definitely not watching out for taxpayers. I already know what our congress(wo)man Peltola, was doing – not a goddamn thing for us, only for herself.
Not only for herself but her late husband was in line for some carbon credit trading deals….but he passed so I guess it was only for herself.
Good. And, hopefully, this is just the beginning. The 11th hour Biden grift must all be clawed back. First the money, then investigation, then arrests and trans and finally incarceration.
Green energy is a complete fallacy
You guys have to remember one thing about oil fields they run out eventually
Solar, wind, and geothermal does not.
Bradley J Russell
You have to remember 1 thing. It takes oil and metals to build green energy projects. Can’t have one without the other now can we?? Brad ???
They have been running out for ages so far. Peak oil was proposed in the 70s, and so far, we have seen more, more, and more oil discovered around the globe.
There is currently centuries of known available petroleum, and we are finding more every year. So… why the push? Why stop lifting it and using is? Why try to replace it immediately when not necessary?
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Want to supplement with alternative energy sources (I will not call them green, there is nothing green about them), fine. Do it. However, trying to limit the use of abundant available energy sources in order to make expensive, inefficient, and failure prone “green” energy viable is disingenuous at best, and fraud at worst.
Solar runs out each and every day, it’s actually done so with regularity for eons.
Wind can run out as quick as a dying breeze. Geothermal won’t run out anytime soon but isn’t available or suitable for large parts of the world.
Ask Spain about how their solar and wind helped to recently shutdown their entire economy for days. There’s a place for both, but they aren’t a reliable source of electrical generation.
Luddites, all.
You’re not worth responding too. Lefty
Wow, I actually agree with you here dog.
The Luddites were perfectly OK with using the wind as an energy source, and look at where it got them.
This is really unfortunate. I was hoping to do a $20 million project, arguably clean, that would benefit lots of folks. I would agree to limit overhead to no more than twelve employees, with salaries not to exceed $500K, excluding expenses. Now these jobs will be lost.
Those were the only jobs Joe could produce and coincidently he had ties to those recipients.
Carbon sequestration is not required if you simply do not burn carbon. Carbon sequestration is not required for solar, or wind power. BTW, the BEV mandates in California are no different than 15% ethanol mandates in the Midwest. All subsidies and mandates should have sunsets for re-evaluation
You got it right in the first five words. Score one for Frank.
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Then you continued. And, fouled, resulting in loss of the score, and a 15 yard penalty.
Just like strippers, green energy stops working as soon as you stop throwing money at it.
For the win. – sd
Wish I could take credit for it, but I totally stole that one.
Wind farms are a joke, I built one here in Alaska and it underperformed from.day one. Why do they always locate them directly in the flight paths of migratory birds?
There is one hell of a lot more that needs backtracked.
Like the thousands of last hour pardons for convicted incarcerated criminals signed by the handy Autopen while Joe was asleep at the wheel without any scrutiny on who they were releasing and who received the cash and gifts for doing so.