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Energy Sec. Chris Wright: U.S. needs to add 100 GW of energy capacity in the next five years
CNBC Television· 2025-09-24 14:45
Uh so how much are you thinking right now about what what the new sort of configuration given all the things that the administration is trying to do in terms of bringing back certain business to the US. What what the energy requirements ultimately look like. I guess in simple numbers we think we need to add 100 gawatt of new firm capacity in the next 5 years. And when we arrived, when President Trump arrived in office, the plans and in cues was to close 100 gawatts, mostly of coal, a little bit of natural g ...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: We need to add 100 gigawatts of new firm capacity in the next 5 years
CNBC Television· 2025-09-24 12:54
Joining us uh right now on set before he heads to the UN later today is United States Energy Secretary Chris Wright. And we're thrilled to have him at the table. Good morning to you.Great to be here, Andrew. Feels like we're going through an energy renaissance in this country in so many different ways. A lot of it driven by AI.How much of this is an AI boom versus something else. Well, the AI boom is for the electricity sector. We haven't had much growth there in a while.That's the biggest driver of growth ...