DAVID BLACKMON: Solar, Wind Might Not Be Totally Dead Under Trump

In an interview with Politico out this week, Energy Secretary Chris Wright pushed back against critics’ claims that the Trump administration’s policies will kill off the U.S. wind and solar industries.

“What we’re doing is not ending renewables,” Wright said. “The previous administration thought wind, solar and batteries were going to power the world. They’re not going to power the world. So, you just got to look at them in a more realistic context.”

This is it, exactly, and it’s a new reality that is forcing a rapid reassessment of the prospects for a real “energy transition” truly taking place in any currently living person’s lifetime. Reality, as it turns out, holds more sway over all the rosy talking points based on wishful thinking, command-and-control regulations and government subsidies combined can hope to achieve. This is because the laws of physics are actual laws, not mere suggestions or guidelines.

The central flaw in the recent push by central planning leftists to force a transition from true baseload electric generation powered by natural gas, coal and nuclear to the false promises and flawed premises of “green” energy proponents is that the alternative forms of energy they’ve forced taxpayers around the world to spend trillions of dollars to subsidize simply cannot do the job that needs to be done. It’s just reality – it’s how the world works, and how it doesn’t work.

But that reality doesn’t mean wind and solar have no place in a well-managed integrated power grid, as Wright points out. It just can’t be the place their proponents advocate if the grid is to be stable and reliable.

Wright’s comments to Politico about the future viability of solar power seems more than a little at odds with President Trump’s own remarks made in a Truth Social post a day after the Politico interview was published.

“Any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS,” Trump wrote, adding, “THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar. The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!! MAGA”