Posted on 07/14/2025 1:04:59 PM PDT by catnipman
The promise of a green manufacturing boom, fueled by generous subsidies and ambitious climate policies, is unraveling across the United States and beyond. So-called “ghost factories”—abandoned or stalled clean-energy projects—are becoming a stark symbol of the challenges facing the green energy sector.
From Arizona to Massachusetts, once-celebrated plans for battery plants, wind turbine factories, and solar component facilities are being scrapped or delayed, raising serious questions about the sustainability of Net Zero ambitions, the risk of deindustrialization, and the potential for fiscal collapse in green markets.
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Specific Examples:
Kore's battery factory in Arizona:
A planned US$850 million (S$1 billion) battery factory was cancelled after the company's CEO stepped down and a federal loan was withdrawn.
Wind turbine cable factory in Massachusetts:
A project to build a wind turbine cable factory on the site of a former coal power plant was scrapped. Electric vehicle battery parts factory in Georgia: Construction of a facility for electric vehicle battery parts was suspended midway.
Lithium-ion battery maker in Colorado:
A company announced it would not proceed with its planned factory in Colorado.
Factors Contributing to Ghost Factories:
Rising Costs:
The cost of materials, labor, and construction has increased significantly, making many projects economically unfeasible.
High Interest Rates:
Higher interest rates have made it more expensive to borrow money for these large-scale projects.
Slow EV Demand:
The growth in electric vehicle adoption has not been as rapid as initially projected, leading to reduced demand for components and batteries.
Policy Changes:
Changes in government policies, such as the rollback of green energy subsidies, have also contributed to the cancellations.
Impact:
The emergence of ghost factories is a significant concern for the green energy sector, highlighting the challenges of scaling up manufacturing and the potential for boom-and-bust cycles in emerging industries. It also raises questions about the effectiveness of government support and the long-term viability of green energy initiatives, according to some financial news websites.
These Ghost factories, funded by Biden, seem to have been on the way out the door....prior to the election of President Trump
Dutch to Ration Electricity
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/green-dogma-forces-the-dutch-to-ration-electricity/
Remember Solyndra, of Fremont CA.?
A company built around the use of solar power. Supported by Obama in his first term . The government invested $550. Million in building this company, but it never made money, and declared bankruptcy within 2 years. Around 2011.
We need to eliminate Ghost universities that are churning out useless graduates.
Need the “Ha Ha” guy graphic. Us free enterprise folks tried to tell them. Yet, NYC is supposedly going to elect a Socialist/Commie mayor. It actually boggles my brain pan that so many never learn what works and what doesn’t. Oh right, we’ll do it better next time.
Without huge government subsidies these “green” schemes are financially untenable. And the government subsidy for purchase of an EV is ending soon too.
The green energy sector fraud.
Factors Contributing to Ghost Factories:
the slowly dawning realization in the dull brains of the people who vote democrat and the scammers they vote for that it's all a scam to suck money out of the taxpayers for inferior expensive products, and that "green energy" is as workable and desirable as a communist society. Though plenty of moronic voters in the USA seem to think that socialism/communism is a workable for of society.
Full speed ahead lefty Woke save the planet agendas. Financial facts and realities don’t matter to these brainwashed robots.
I’d say Illinois is becoming a “Ghost state”, but I don’t think anybody could find a sheet big enough to cover JB Pritzker.
“the risk of deindustrialization”
Spare me. This frees up capital and labor to move to real industrialization with much higher productivity.
It is not deindustrialization. Like firing government employees, it frees up the factors of production to perform useful, productive work.
The green scam works thusly: Demonize the old productive energy source. Subsidize the “green” replacement owned by politically connected. Connected recycle portion of subsidy back to politicians. “Green” whatever fails as it was never a true replacement and the parasites move to the next scam.
They were always going to be ghost factories as green scams always run out of other people’s money. It is just happening faster as Trump removes the enrichment of parasites phase of the scam.
John Podesta, Bill Clinton admin insider and FJB's Clean Energy czar and Hillary's 2016 campaign manager, was handed $370 Billion in 2022 in walkin' around money per the LOL Inflation Reduction Act.
With his appointment, the obvious purpose of so-called Clean Energy was to launder taxpayer money to democrats.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/09/02/biden-taps-veteran-democrat-john-podesta-as-clean-energy-spending-czar/
The liberal “go-to” mentality is that they can dictate to the market, and with subsidies and coercion being about the desired result. This was too big a task for those tools, and anyone with a brain could foresee this result
The liberal “go-to” mentality is that they can dictate to the market, and with subsidies and coercion being about the desired result. This was too big a task for those tools, and anyone with a brain could foresee this result
A few years ago, I surprised a liberal by saying green energy projects would disappear once the subsidies stopped. I’d seen it before.
Solar panels covered several office buildings where I worked during the Carter years. Reagan became President. The solar panels broke and leaked liquid on the parking lot and sidewalk. Then one day, they were all gone.
If you do it “right” this time according to some...there might not be a next time. Hate to see that happen in our USA.
Fueled by generous subsidies.
What the world needs now is no subsidies, for anything.
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