Chris Wright
speaker
702 appearances
118 recordings
12 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Chris Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we can easily produce vastly more natural gas today.
So power prices, the problem isn't the price of natural gas.
The problem is the infrastructure, you know, generation facilities, transmission lines.
The Biden administration for four years forced the closure of a lot of coal plants.
A few gas plants prevented the building of new coal and natural gas power plants.
They built a lot of unreliable intermittent electricity that's spread all over the country that takes more transmission assets.
All of that goes into the rate base and has pushed up prices.
Frankly, it's part of the reason why President Trump got elected.
So we're having to reverse all those things, stop the closure of coal plants, make it easier to build new natural gas plants.
make new sources that want to come on, be successful commercially, not dependent upon subsidies, and not require massive new transmission investments that all just go on to the rate payers.
So we're doing a lot of things at FERC.
We had a big announcement last Thursday I probably can't go into here, but specifically aimed at artificial intelligence, how we can speed new firm generation without driving up the price of electricity.
I share the American consumers' worries about the recent rises in price of electricity over the last four years, and I'm working seven days a week to stop those price rises and enable the United States to lead in artificial intelligence.
We've seen one of the most significant announcements from this administration when it comes to nuclear.
The government is planning this partnership, $80 billion for nuclear reactors, with a Canadian company, Westinghouse.
Who will develop them and where?
Can you give us more details about this?
Oh, I would call Westinghouse an American company.
It's a legacy American company, and it's majority owned by the Americans.
It has a Canadian partner in Cameco.
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