In another broken promise to Nevadans, Joe Lombardo is failing to restore critical solar projects in Nevada that the Trump administration terminated. After Lombardo claimed to have cut a deal with Donald Trump to protect Nevada’s renewable energy supply, a spokesman for Advanced Energy United said, “such an agreement wasn’t on our radar.”
This new reporting comes after the Trump administration also gutted $156 million in grants that would have reduced utility bills for thousands of Nevadans. As Nevadans drown in sky-high costs under the Lombardo-Trump economy, Lombardo refuses to speak out against Trump’s cancellation of renewable energy projects. Instead, Lombardo embraced Trump’s endorsement and said the president has “done good” in his second term so far.
Under Trump’s disastrous leadership, Nevadans pay some of the highest electrical bills in the country and more than 80,500 clean energy jobs have been lost or delayed. Yet, as Trump guts these and other critical energy projects, Lombardo has shamelessly tried to take credit for investments created by Democrats that he previously criticized.
Nevada Current: Lombardo silent on Trump’s pledge to restore Biden-era solar subsidies to Nevada
- President Donald Trump’s agreement with Gov. Joe Lombardo to restore subsidies to develop solar farms in Nevada, revealed during a December podcast, is among the best-kept secrets in an industry devastated by Trump’s anti-clean energy agenda.
- Trump’s policies have frozen 60 solar projects, many of them in Nevada, the Center for Western Priorities reported this month. The clean-energy projects were slated to benefit from subsidies championed by former President Joe Biden, whose policies Trump and Lombardo have slammed.
- Hosts of the GangboX podcast, produced by the Southern Nevada Building Trades Union, asked Lombardo in December what he’s “doing about energy projects getting shut down here?”
- Lombardo went on to say he had a meeting scheduled with Burgum the next week on Colorado River issues, and planned to “confirm with him at that time where we’re at with the solar fields.”
- Lombardo made no further statements about the agreement with Trump or how the administration is protecting Nevada’s renewable energy supply. He did not respond to the Current’s requests for comment.
- “Such an agreement wasn’t on our radar,” said Adam Weiner, a spokesman for Advanced Energy United, a clean energy trade organization in Washington, D.C. “Not aware of such an agreement in any other state either.”
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