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Chris Wright: “By 2030, blackouts would be 100 times more common if current…”

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

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Goldman Sachs MD Neil Mehta speaks to Energy Sec. Chris Wright at energy conference — 1/7/2026

Published | Video Starts at 23:04

And amazingly, through this crazy policy delusion I talked about, we reverse that and now electricity is getting more expensive and less reliable. We did a study. If you extrapolate the investment trends that are going on in our country By 2030, blackouts would be 100 times more common if current investment trends continue. you do crazy stuff, you get bad results again. See Germany, see United Kingdom, see California. But it's not for some nature that somehow it became impossible to make affordable electricity. (23:04–23:17)

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Asserts that current investment trends could lead to a significant increase in blackouts by 2030.

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