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Chris Wright: “We're going to have a net negative 80 gigawatt change in the…”

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 33:15

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. But yet we want to add 100 gigawatts of new load. Again, that seems like a math problem to me. So we. (33:15–33:23)

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Asserts that there will be a net reduction of 80 gigawatts in US electric grid capacity by 2030.

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