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Chris Wright: “It controls huge utility infrastructure, transmission…”

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

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Rep. Bentz Discusses Biomass with Secretary Wright during Subcommittee on Energy Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 00:41

But can you share with us what your thoughts are when it comes to Bonneville Power? Yeah. Bonneville Power is a critical utility and power asset in the Northwest. It's a huge power marketer. It controls huge utility infrastructure, transmission infrastructure. It is very important. We need as strong as possible a leader of that organization as we can get. We have some requirements from government salary limitations that have made it harder to recruit people from. (00:41–00:46)

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