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Chris Wright: “At the very peak demand time in New England, wind, Solar and…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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🇺🇸 Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Published | Video Starts at 23:44

If you're 10% below the peak, still got spare capacity, and you could put a data center on if that was the peak. But you have to be there at the very peak demand time. At the very peak demand time in New England, wind, Solar and batteries were 2% of New England electricity. Burning trash and wood was 3%. You know, they just. A lot of days it's windy. (23:44–23:52)

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Asserts that during peak demand in New England, wind, solar, and batteries contributed 2% of electricity.

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