特朗普政府与能源公司RWE达成协议，以12.2亿美元的价格回购其在纽约、加州和路易斯安那州的海上风电租赁权[1]。作为协议的一部分，RWE将分别投资9亿美元用于路易斯安那州液化天然气项目，以及3亿美元用于天然气涡轮机[1]。
这是特朗普政府推行系列海上风电回购协议的最新举措[1]。此前，特朗普政府已在类似协议上总共支出约39亿美元，其中包括向TotalEnergies支付近10亿美元、向Golden State Wind和Bluepoint Wind合计近9亿美元、向Invenergy支付7.65亿美元[1]。美国内务部长道格·伯格姆为此举辩护，称其代表了"基于常识的能源系统"[1]。
民主党参议员谢尔登·怀特豪斯对此提出批评，指责这笔交易是"真正骗局"，称其"从消费者口袋里抽取数十亿美元"[1]。
The Trump administration has reached a $1.22 billion agreement with energy company RWE to buy back its offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York, California, and Louisiana [1]. Under the deal, RWE will relinquish these wind energy projects and redirect its investment toward natural gas infrastructure, committing $900 million to a liquefied natural gas project in Louisiana and $300 million to gas turbine equipment [1].
This transaction represents part of a broader strategy by the Trump administration to curtail offshore wind development in favor of fossil fuel expansion. The government has now expended approximately $3.9 billion on similar buyback agreements, following comparable deals with TotalEnergies, which received nearly $1 billion, Golden State Wind and Bluepoint Wind, which received close to $900 million, and Invenergy, which secured $765 million [1].
Interior Secretary Doug Bergum characterized the arrangement as advancing "a common-sense energy system," while Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse criticized it as a genuine fraud that extracts billions of dollars from consumers' pockets [1].