The Trump administration has delivered a potential body blow to the wind-energy industry with a sweeping executive order that pauses new leases and permits for arrays in federal waters and on land.

Orsted A/S shares slumped after it recorded a $1.7 billion hit on its earnings as the cost of building offshore wind farms in the US keeps rising, complicating the company’s efforts to expand the green technology from Europe.

The president-elect last week derided wind-energy turbines as little more than "garbage in a field," while vowing to undo recently enacted oil and gas offshore drilling bans.

President Trump signed an executive order that halted federal leases for offshore wind development on the outer continental shelf.

Louisiana might not see any revenue promised by a recently passed constitutional amendment regarding royalties for offshore wind and other renewable sources. Generally apprehensive of the clean energy initiatives of the Biden administration,