A judge overrules Trump’s effort to cancel CVOW, an offshore wind project, that will cost more than $20 billion.
A federal judge ruled recently that the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project could continue despite the Trump administration’s efforts to pause it on national-security grounds. Supporters of the project argue that the administration’s effort is hypocritical given its “all of the above” energy strategy.
Although the administration’s claims about national security may be a fig leaf, President Trump is right that offshore wind is a bad way to get energy. The CVOW will be one of the most expensive energy projects in U.S. history, and it will burden Virginia’s consumers for decades. Gov. Abigail Spanberger and others claiming the project will foster “affordability” are wrong.
Like many renewable-energy projects, the CVOW emerged from a government order instead of market demand. The Virginia Clean Economy Act of 2020 required the state’s main utility, Dominion Energy, to be carbon-free within a quarter-century and specifically mandated that a state utility build a massive offshore wind farm.
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Judge Glock is the director of research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal.
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