Future of nation’s energy grid hurt by Trump’s funding cuts

By: Roshanak (Roshi) Nateghi, Georgetown University

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: October 28, 2025

Words: 1,298

Last Updated: 4 weeks ago

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By Roshanak (Roshi) Nateghi, Georgetown University

The Trump administration’s widespread cancellation and freezing of clean energy funding is also hitting essential work to improve the nation’s power grid. That includes investments in grid modernization, energy storage and efforts to protect communities from outages during extreme weather and cyberattacks. Ending these projects leaves Americans vulnerable to more frequent and longer-lasting power outages.

The Department of Energy has defended the cancellations, saying that “the projects did …

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