Forecasting the Future

摘要

A presidential election always brings some degree of uncertainty. In this case, I'm going to focus on the uncertainty surrounding the U.S. president-elect's attitude toward hydropower. After all, the country has experienced eight years with the same leader, whose views on hydro are now pretty well-understood. On Nov. 9, the editors of PennWell's Hydro Group arrived in the office, hitched up our collective pants, and began researching what the next four years with Donald Trump in the White House might mean for the hydroelectric power industry in the U.S. All of our conclusions are naturally very nebulous; we won't know until he's been in office for a while how Trump might truly treat hydro. But his past comments on energy and the environment give us some context.