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How Clean Energy Firms Are Trying to Survive the Trump Era

Offshore wind is out. Geothermal power is in. And many climate technology start-ups are looking for ways to carry on without federal backing. Clean energy isn’t dead in the Trump era. But it...

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How Clean Energy Firms Are Trying to Survive the Trump Era

Offshore wind is out. Geothermal power is in. And many climate technology start-ups are looking for ways to carry on without federal backing.

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A tour of the Geothermal House of the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston this week. Geothermal energy is emerging as one of the big green winners of the current era.

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Brad Plumer

Reporting from one of the nation’s biggest energy industry conferences in Houston.

March 28, 2026,

5:01 a.m. ET

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Clean energy isn’t dead in the Trump era. But it does look different these days.

Since returning to office, President Trump

has dismantled federal efforts

to fight climate change and vowed to stop new wind turbines from going up. His administration

has canceled billions of dollars in funding

for technologies that might one day help reduce planet-warming emissions, and it has instead pushed to expand domestic oil and gas drilling.

Those moves have taken a brutal toll on America’s budding clean energy industry, including

canceled offshore wind farms

shuttered electric-car factories

and

layoffs

at climate technology start-ups.

Yet many clean energy executives say they are finding ways to adapt, and some promising technologies that might help slow global warming are moving forward.

Some industries, such as geothermal energy or nuclear power, still receive support from the Trump administration. Start-ups that could help cut emissions from factories are figuring out how to survive without federal support. Others, such as battery companies, are looking to pitch themselves as a solution for the artificial intelligence and data center boom.

More than 300 start-ups attended a major annual energy industry summit this week, known as CERAWeek by S&P Global, showcasing ideas for investors and policymakers like advanced batteries that can store power for multiple days and lower-emission jet fuel.

“We’ve just gone through an era of radical uncertainty” for clean energy, said Alex Kizer, an executive vice president at the Energy Futures Initiative, a Washington nonprofit organization. “And for a lot of companies, there are big questions on how they’ll evolve going forward.”

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