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Chris Wright: “The cost of transmission is the fastest rising piece of the…”

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 39:03

… could build wind turbines out there and we could build wind turbines over there, we could put solar over there and when you start to put remote generating sources everywhere. The cost of transmission is the fastest rising piece of the rising electricity bills in the United States. So we want transmission that makes sense, that de bottlenecks. But a lot of the transmission, some that we built and that we're trying to build is really just an additional subsidy to take a low value energy source and make it monetizable. (39:03–39:11)

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Asserts that transmission costs are the fastest rising component of electricity bills in the US.

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