German energy company RWE plans to invest approximately €17bn (£14.5bn; $19.6bn) in the United States over the next six years to expand its electricity generation capacity.
US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement on X that Americans deserve an energy system based on common sense rather than one reliant on “costly subsidies”.
“We welcome RWE’s agreement and voluntary investment in projects that strengthen America’s energy security,” he added.
The RWE investment deal is the latest agreement reached by the Trump administration as President Donald Trump continues his campaign against offshore wind projects and promotes domestic fossil fuel production.
Trump has pledged to increase government support for the fossil fuel industry after running for president under the slogan “drill, baby, drill”.
Shortly after returning to office, he said, “we’re not going to do the wind thing”, describing wind turbines as “big, ugly windmills” that posed risks to wildlife.
In March 2026, the US Department of the Interior reached an agreement with TotalEnergies that ended the French energy company’s offshore wind projects in the United States.
Under that agreement, TotalEnergies agreed to redirect its investment towards constructing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Texas and developing “upstream conventional oil” resources in the Gulf of Mexico.
The administration also signed a similar $129bn (£96bn) agreement with Charlotte-based Duke Energy last month, in exchange for terminating the company’s offshore wind lease in the Carolina Long Bay area.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk