A total of 59 gigawatts of U.S. clean energy projects are facing delays at a time when demand for power from AI data centers is surging, according to a trade group study.<\/p>\n
Developers are seeing an average delay of 19 months over issues such as long interconnection times, supply constraints and regulatory barriers, the American Clean Power Assn.<\/a> said in a quarterly market report<\/a>.<\/p>\n The backlog is happening despite the growing need for power on grids that are being taxed by energy-hungry data centers and increased manufacturing. The Trump administration has implemented a slew of policies to slow the build-out of solar and wind projects, including delaying approvals on federal lands.<\/p>\n The potential energy generation facing delays is the equivalent of 59 traditional nuclear reactors, enough to power more than 44 million homes simultaneously.<\/p>\n \u201cCurrent policy instability is beginning to impact investor confidence and negatively impact project timelines at a time when demand is surging,\u201d American Clean Power Chief Policy Officer JC Sandberg said in a statement.<\/p>\n Despite the hurdles, developers were able to bring more than 50 gigawatts of wind, solar and batteries online in 2025, accounting for more than 90% of all new power capacity in the U.S., the report found. Clean power purchase agreements declined 36% in 2025 compared with 2024, signaling that the build-out of clean power in the U.S. could be lower in the 2028 to 2030 time period, according to the report.<\/p>\n Chediak writes for Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of 59 gigawatts of U.S. clean energy projects are facing delays at a time when demand…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":645097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[274255,1582,276,6994,12039,24976,274251,1918,2961,274256,224,5337,9105,1630,274257,6620,274252,1439,274253,274254],"class_list":["post-645096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-build-out","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-delay","tag-demand","tag-developer","tag-gigawatt","tag-issue","tag-la","tag-long-interconnection-time","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-month","tag-report","tag-supply-constraint","tag-time","tag-trade-group","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-clean-power","tag-wind-project"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116203810124106389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}