The Trump administration quietly canceled the nation’s largest solar project

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/climate/trump-solar-project-nevada-electricity?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit

by cnn

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  1. The Trump administration’s cancellation of the largest solar project in the United States has sparked confusion and concern among Republicans and Democrats alike.

    Known as the Esmerelda 7, the collection of seven solar projects in rural Nevada was set to generate up to 6.2 gigawatts of energy when complete, enough to power 2 million homes. That’s an eye-popping amount of power to add to an electrical grid that desperately needs more of it, due to the insatiable demand from AI-related data centers and increasing residential needs.

    Under former President Joe Biden, the federal government was moving the sprawling project through the federal permitting process as one proposal. Developers had planned to use 118,000 acres of federal land in Nevada’s desert as the home for solar arrays and batteries to store the sun’s energy.

    Last week, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management quietly changed the project’s status to “canceled” on its federal permitting webpage.

  2. Make America a fucking joke. That is what these people are all about. A global embarrassment and laughing stock.

  3. Electric bill is going up if you’re not affluent enough to afford residential solar panels.

    This is an attack on lower classes.

  4. This administration is going to force homeowners to buy American made home solar. Wild.

  5. No surprise since they formally announced that only coal, gas, and nuclear are the only clean energies.

  7. This guy’s brain stopped accruing new information in the 80’s. He is stuck in the past.

  9. One step backwards, two steps even further back…. WTF is America doing??

  10. My electric bill was going through the roof over the last 3 years so I took matters into my own hands.

    I also bought an EV, I self installed 62 410w panels for a 25kw ground mounted array that generated up to 156 kwh per day. I also self installed a 32kwh set of batteries.

    I built the entire solar panel array and battery backup and wiring and inverters and everything for $17,000 pre tax credit and about $12,000 post tax credit.

    Dont depend on the government to do the right thing, morons make up the vast majority of voters.

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