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Chris Wright: “That $10 trillion got a 2.6% of global energy, 1.2% from…”

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

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🇺🇸 Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Published | Video Starts at 10:57

To give a few numbers on that, the Globe has spent $10 trillion on wind, solar batteries and transmission lines to connect low energy, dense remote energy sources. $10 trillion. And the last full year of data is available, That $10 trillion got a 2.6% of global energy, 1.2% from solar, 1.4% from wind. And that 2.6% actually is a very low value, 2.6% because it's intermittent and it's in the electricity grid where you can't have intermittency. You have to deliver firm electricity. (10:57–11:06)

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Asserts that $10 trillion investment resulted in 2.6% of global energy from renewables.

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