Total ‘pauses’ New York offshore wind project after Trump win [Video]

After Donald Trump’s US election win, French energy giant TotalEnergies has hit the pause button on Attentive Energy, its planned offshore wind farm off the New York coast.

“Offshore wind, I have decided to put the [Attentive Energy] project on pause” with Trump’s return, said Total CEO Patrick Pouyanne on Tuesday at an energy conference in London. “I said to my team, the project in New York, we’ll see that in four years. But the advantage is it’s only for four years.”

Total’s offshore wind project is Attentive Energy, which is an 84,332-acre area around 54 miles from its nearest point to New York and 42 miles from its nearest point to New Jersey. Attentive Energy has the potential to generate 3,000 MW of clean energy to power nearly 1 million homes.

The company won the rights to develop Attentive Energy in a record-setting auction in 2022 and planned to …