What Trump’s tariffs mean for the renewable energy transition

What Trump’s tariffs mean for the renewable energy transition

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. On Wednesday, President Trump unveiled a suite of new tariffs that target pretty much every country and territory in the world — including some where nobody even lives . The full extent of the tariffs’…

Analysis: US hits record clean energy landmark: What Trump’s policies mean for the future

Artistic visualisation of Wind turbines and solar panels. Generated by AI. By Anders Lorenzen A leading energy think tank says that last month, less than half of the US electricity capacity came from fossil fuels. The country where President Donald Trump has waged wars on the leading renewable energy sources, solar and wind, hit a new electricity generation low for fossil fuels in March 2025, data from the global energy think tank Ember reveals.…

Reversal Of US Energy Agenda Sparks Friction Between States

Changes to climate policy under President Donald Trump’s administration have sharpened Upper Midwest debates about the reliability of renewable energy and the separation of state and federal interests.

Sara Aagesen has participated in a meeting organized by Cadena Ser in the Chamber of Commerce Seville, April 4, 2025.- The third vice president of the central government and minister for the ecological transition and demographic challenge, Sara Aagesen, has lamented the "negative" effects of the tariffs imposed by the US administration at a meeting organized by the SER chain under the title "For water and clean energies" and has pointed out that…

The exact impacts on the energy transition will take days, if not weeks, to unravel, but there are some indications of what tariffs will mean in states...