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Chris Wright: “We've built precious little transmission lines in the last…”

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 38:31

We one of my also goals, the Trump administration goal was to make it easier to build things in America. It's so easy to stop something, it's so hard to build something. So We've built precious little transmission lines in the last 20 or 30 years. We do have a few transmission lines projects we're trying hard to push forward even bigger is reconductor in existing lines. How can we get more capacity through right of ways that we already have. (38:31–38:37)

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Asserts that few transmission lines have been built in the US in the last 20-30 years.

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