Donald Trump is an unlikely ally for the wind industry. He’s spent years waging a nasty multi-year feud with an offshore wind project in Scotland and has described wind farms as “disgusting-looking”, “junkyards” and “bad for people’s health” in hundreds of disparaging tweets and remarks.
Yet six months after Trump’s surprise election, and despite ideas and policies that will slow the shift to renewables, his interests and those of the wind industry appear more closely aligned than either would have imagined — and certainly closer than Trump is ready to admit.
