Europe has long been familiar with President Donald Trump’s attitude toward renewable energy. For the past 10 years developers of the proposed European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) have been engaged in a legal battle with the billionaire over their planned 100MW wind farm, which would be situated off the coast near Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Northern California is experiencing what should be an oddity, but tragically it is becoming all too familiar in the United States — the Lake Oroville dam, which is a key part of California’s water infrastructure system and supports one of the world’s leading agricultural regions, is near failure due to torrential rains and deferred maintenance. 

Institutional investors all over the world are watching patiently as many Western and Eastern nations discuss renewed commitments to infrastructure spending. In the United States, Republicans and Democrats are providing their versions of what they would like to get done. For example, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer of New York introduced a 10-year, $1 trillion infrastructure-building plan. Republicans, on the other hand, have already tangled with President Trump’s vision of infrastructure, as senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he hopes to “avoid a trillion-dollar stimulus.”