A leading solar power entrepreneur says the massive solar farm his company helped bring to Martin County is not affected by actions by Congress and the Trump Administration. Adam Edelen is founder and CEO of Edelen Renewables, which partnered with owner Savion and Toyota to build the 12-hundred-acre site on an abandoned coal mine. He said another project is in limbo.
“A project that we're involved with in Pennsylvania was awarded a $90 million grant on the Department of Energy. That grant has been frozen by the Trump administration. Now, to their defense, it was not on the list of killed projects that they recently produced. So we're hopeful that that will be able to continue to advance.”
Edelen said the Republican Congress's early sunset of green energy tax credits is creating uncertainty in the green energy marketplace – but he still believes the green energy revolution is irreversible.
“In a country where the greatest minds and finance and business and technology are working to position this country as the global leader in this grand this grand energy transition, the notion that we want to stop that is foolhardy, and ultimately, it's self-defeating.”
Edelen said many of the green energy jobs have been filled by out-of-work coal miners in Appalachia and he hopes the Senate will not agree with the House’s sunset of tax credits.
