DOE Secretary Chris Wright: Energy Exceptionalism Quotations

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 14, 2025

“… my passion for bettering human lives via improved access to energy is unwavering.” (- Chris Wright, below)

It is a topsy-turvy new energy world where reality bats last. With the physics of energy overcoming the ‘magical thinking’ of renewables and deep decarbonization, and with a push in the U.S. under Trump, the Paris Accord (‘a fraud really, a fake‘) is going the way of the Kyoto Protocol. The forced smiles of Climate Week in New York City last month will be harder to maintain at COP 30 in Brazil. Perhaps it will be the last one as more and more countries exit, just as businesses have from the decarbonization alliances.

The new reality and politics has a central world figure in Donald Trump. But behind Trump is the Secretary of the U.S.…

Utility-scale Solar: The Grim News Begins (Blue Ridge “wind-down’)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 9, 2025

“… this was one of the hottest and most promising job sectors in the country at the end of 2024. Now, clean energy job growth is at serious risk – and with it, our overall economy.” (-Bob Keefe, below)

“Solar construction firm Blue Ridge Power issues mass worker layoff in North Carolina,” read the article in pv magazine. “The utility-scale solar engineering, procurement and construction firm filed a WARN act with the state, cutting over 500 jobs.”

Much of the rooftop solar industry is in liquidation mode, and now the central station “utility scale” solar industry is in trouble. Expect more of the same in the next months as solar subsidies and local opposition grows (the environmental grassroots). The delayed end of the Investment Tax Credit (30 percent credit) and the Production Tax Credit (2.8 cents/kWh) will cause a rush to the exits before the credits expire at the end of 2027 (with credits at risk for projects not started by July 4, 2026).…

Solar, Wind ESG/ETC Closures Accelerate

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 7, 2025

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” ( – Milton Friedman, 1975)

The “socially responsible” investing bubble–a combination of government subsidies and political correctness–is leaking air. Yesterday’s post reported the demise of the Net Zero Banking Alliance. Now the wind and solar Exchange Traded Fund [ETF] is in freefall. As Eric Balchunas, Senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, recently reported:

Solar, Wind ETF Closures Show Just How Much the Climate Has Changed. 5 ESG ETF closures in Aug, now 21 for year, 74 total… with 50 more in danger bc under the $50m mark. Basically when all is said and done about half of all ESG ETFs launched will likely be shuttered

One wealth analyst commented: “It seems to be a category started with good intent (ESG/Impact) but was quickly hijacked by politicians for their own causes and that dilutes any initial good intent.”…