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turbinetree

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Fri Oct 10, 2025, 05:03 PM Oct 10

Trump kills major project backed by company donating millions to his White House ballroom [View all]

By Matthew Chapman
Published October 10, 2025 4:00 PM ET

A firm that cut millions of dollars in donations to President Donald Trump's plan for a massive new ballroom wing of the White House has suddenly found one of its flagship energy projects canceled by the Bureau of Land Management with no explanation.

According to The New York Times, "The project, known as Esmeralda 7, would have comprised a sprawling network of solar panels and batteries across 118,000 acres of federally owned land in the Nevada desert northwest of Las Vegas. It was expected to produce up to 6.2 gigawatts of energy, enough to power nearly two million homes." It would have been one of the largest solar installations anywhere in the world.

A developer leading the project was NextEra Energy, one of the biggest utility firms in the United States.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-solar/

Hey NextEra maybe you didn't pay enough you know gratuities.................

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