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Wright: All US batteries combined store five minutes of grid power
“If you take all the batteries in the United States, you could store five minutes of power.”
Chris Wright: Nuclear is statistically the safest form of energy production
“It's the safest form of energy production we've ever seen, for amount of energy it's produced and the amount of negative impacts, but people think it's the scariest and the most dangerous.”
Wright: Wood burning doubles the energy of wind, solar, and batteries
“The biggest component I didn't mention is traditional biomass. Burning wood. That is twice the total global energy of wind, solar, and batteries combined.”
Wright: Federal government subsidizes wind power at 4 cents per kWh
“The government pays that wind power producer four cents a kilowatt hour in a subsidy to pay it. That's straight from the federal government to the provider of that wind power.”
Chris Wright: IPCC projects only a 0.2% to 4% income drop by 2100
“Their estimates range from 0.2 to maybe three, four percent reduction in per capita income at the end of this century.”
Wright: US will have new small modular reactors by July 2026
“We will have new next generation small modular reactors critical next year. Our goal is by July fourth, and I think we will beat that.”
Wright: Wind, solar, and batteries provided 3% of PJM peak demand
“In PJM where we are right now, at peak demand this year, 97% of electricity, wind, solar, and batteries delivered three percent.”
Wright: Texas wind and solar supplied 8% of power at peak demand
“Wind and solar go on vacation. They're 35% of the capacity in Texas, eight percent of the delivered power at peak demand.”
Chris Wright: China has over 20 nuclear reactors under construction
“They're building reactors faster and therefore cheaper, and they've got 20 plus under construction right now.”
Wright: Hydrocarbons provided 85% of global energy in both 1973 and 2024
“Yeah, so, so in 1973, and I use that year because that's the Yom Kippur War. That's when oil prices tripled. Later in the decade, they doubled again in the Iranian Revolution. So we said, we gotta get off oil and gas. So in 1973, oil, gas, and coal provided 85…”
Wright: U.S. retail electricity prices rose 25% under Biden administration
“We saw retail electricity prices rose 25% during the Biden administration. Wholesale electricity prices rose far more than that, over 50%.”
Wright: China built 100 new coal plants last year
“It's by far and away the biggest source of electricity in China, and they built a hundred coal plants last year.”
Wright: Electricity accounts for only 20% of total global energy usage
“Electricity delivers 20% of global energy. Wrap the panel in a, wrap the whole planet in a solar panel, you got 20% of energy delivered.”
Wright: Three Gen-IV reactors will achieve criticality at Idaho lab by next summer
“We will have three next generation Gen-IV reactors critical in Idaho National Lab next summer.”