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Chris Wright: “Your northern Miso region is among the highest risk among a…”

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

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Gary Peters Grills Chris Wright On Federal Order To Keep Coal Plant Scheduled For Closure Online

Published | Video Starts at 03:36

Yeah. So with 202Cs, our struggle is. When we came in the NERC, the North American Electric Reliability Council described the state of the grid as a five alarm fire. Your northern Miso region is among the highest risk among a grid that's at the highest risk in my lifetime. So we want to reverse this trend of destabilizing our grids and driving up electricity prices. And the first thing to do is to stop shutting down reliable dispatchable assets at scale that continue to run. (03:36–03:43)

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