The blitz of executive orders issued by the new Trump Administration included a directive that raises questions whether massive amounts of anticipated electric generation from still-to-be-constructed offshore wind projects off California’s coast will eventually flow into the state’s power grid.

President Donald Trump’s cessation of new offshore wind projects as one of his first matters of business sent a chill throughout the multi-billion dollar industry that’s taken root across the nation.

The new administration’s hostility to wind power raises questions for alternative energy in farm country. A cow grazes in a pasture at dawn a wind turbine rises in the distance at the Buckeye Wind Energy wind farm,