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Chris Wright: “If you add up wind and solar last year, you know, they were…”

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

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US Energy Secretary Wright on America's Energy Strategy

Published | Video Starts at 24:10

They think of electricity like gasoline or oil, where you can store it and sort of use it because it doesn't work that way. So we look at the data. Oh my gosh. If you add up wind and solar last year, you know, they were 16 or 17% of electricity. They're meaningful for American electrons. Why don't we get more of those electrons on the grid? That's not the way to think about electricity. (24:10–24:15)

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Asserts that wind and solar accounted for 16-17% of electricity generation last year.

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