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Chris Wright: “We inherited a plan that was closing almost 100 gigawatts of…”

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 33:03

And we don't know when that's going to be. So we need to add 100 gigawatts. We inherited a plan that was closing almost 100 gigawatts of firm generation over the next five years. and plans only to build 22 new gigawatts of firm generation. So we're going to have a net negative 80 gigawatt change in the US electric grid capacity by the year 2030. (33:03–33:11)

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Asserts that there is a plan to close nearly 100 gigawatts of firm generation capacity in the next five years.

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