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Chris Wright: “Coal's like 16% of our total generating capacity today.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 39:48

So new plants that are built that are thermal that are hydrocarbon plants are going to be almost all natural gas. Yeah, but we have Coal's like 16% of our total generating capacity today. And it's available whether the sun is shining, the wind is blowing, it's like equal to wind and solar combined in the total output. But it's important output. (39:48–39:53)

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Asserts that coal accounts for 16% of the U.S. total generating capacity.

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