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Wright on Perino: Day-One Priorities Are LNG Exports, Energy Addition, Grid Reliability and Permitting, Feb. 6, 2025

February 7, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:05:02

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright, newly in office, told Fox News host Dana Perino that President Trump ran on a mandate to unleash American energy, which lowers costs and brings jobs and entrepreneurial opportunity, and that while a deep hole was dug over four years, tremendous progress will come in the coming months and years, according to Wright.

Perino displayed Wright’s day-one priorities — the LNG export issue, energy addition rather than subtraction, grid reliability, and permitting — and Wright said a lot can be done quickly to affect the American consumer, according to the interview. He praised Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s early revocations of Biden-era actions opening federal waters, ANWR, and the National Petroleum Reserve, and said he would be trying to catch up with Burgum, according to Wright.

Wright said electricity prices may be the most alarming: they rose fast over four years with no growth in demand, and now AI is adding a whole new industry’s demand on a dangerous trajectory, according to the interview. He said the administration will grow capacity to produce and distribute electricity, stop the price rises, and hopefully reverse them, according to Wright. On climate, he said climate change is real but nowhere near the world’s biggest problem, a slow-moving problem whose only solution is better energy technology, and that treating it as a political football makes energy more expensive and displaces jobs, according to his remarks.

Why it matters

The interview is the new secretary’s agenda-setting appearance: his four stated day-one priorities and his diagnosis of electricity prices, recorded at the start of his tenure.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright joins FOX’s Dana Perino - February 6th, 2025”, 2025-02-07 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-02-07). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.