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Chris Wright: “States with renewable portfolio standards had electricity…”

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 23:52

But in those, if you compare those states with renewable portfolio standards, they have over 50% higher electricity rates than the other states that don't have renewable portfolio standards. And if you look just at the last five years, the States with renewable portfolio standards had electricity prices increase at twice the rate of inflation in the last five years. states that don't have RPC, unfortunately also had increasing nominal prices of electricity, but below the price of below the rate of inflation, we should be having trends in electricity prices way below the rise of inflation. (23:52–24:02)

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Asserts that electricity prices in states with renewable portfolio standards have increased at a much higher rate than inflation.

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