European clean energy stocks tumble as Trump wins presidency
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By Stine Jacobsen
COPENHAGEN, Nov 6 (Reuters) -Shares in European clean energy groups plummeted on Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, as investors fretted over a potential dismantling of U.S. support for renewables and climate policy.
Trump had vowed to scrap offshore wind projects through an executive order on his first day in office and to roll back climate regulations implemented under President Joe Biden.
That includes leaving the Paris Agreement, under which countries pledge to limit global warming, and potentially undoing Biden's flagship Inflation Reduction Act, which provides massive subsidies and incentives to clean energy technologies.
The world's largest offshore wind developer Orsted ORSTED.CO fell 10% by 1133 GMT while wind turbine makers Vestas VWS.CO and Nordex NDXG.DE traded down around 8% and 6%, respectively.
"The key message is that uncertainty is back," Alphavalue analyst Pierre-Alexandre Ramondenc told Reuters.
The U.S. renewables market is a key growth sector for several European utility companies, including Portugal's EDP Renovaveis, Orsted, and Germany's top power producer RWE RWEG.DE, according to Deutsche Bank analysts.
"A full repeal of the IRA would depend on Congress, although significant changes might be possible," Deutsche Bank wrote in a note to clients.
While projects where construction had begun were likely to go ahead, Trump's policies could delay others such as offshore wind projects not due online until 2029 or later, the bank added.
Despite the uncertainty, Vestas and Orsted had said on Tuesday that they expected demand for green energy in the U.S. would continue to grow regardless of who won the presidency.
Nordex also remained optimistic about the U.S. onshore wind market but acknowledged potential delays in customer decisions due to uncertainty, a spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday.
Shares in RWE RWEG.DE, which also has wind assets, fell 3.4%, while EDP Renovaveis, traded 7.7% lower.
Vestas, Orsted and EDP were the biggest decliners on the pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX.
EDP declined to comment while RWE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, additional reporting by Danilo Masoni and Louis van Boxel-Woolf, editing by Jan Harvey and Bernadette Baum
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