Wright at Rinnai America in Georgia: The Water Heater Rule That Would Have Closed the Plant

Name: "Wright at Rinnai America in Georgia: The Water Heater Rule That Would Have Closed the Plant"
Uploaded: 2025-08-14
Duration: 1 min 5 s
Description: "In a Department of Energy video of Secretary Chris Wright's May 2025 visit to Rinnai America in Georgia, posted August 14, 2025, Wright said a late Biden administration rule would have made the three-year-old factory's product illegal and shut the plant, and credited the Trump administration with keeping it open, according to the Department of Energy."

August 14, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:01:05

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What happened

The Department of Energy posted a short video on August 14, 2025 of Secretary Chris Wright at Rinnai America Corporation in Georgia, from his May 5, 2025 visit, according to the department’s recording. Standing in what he described as a renowned, only three-year-old manufacturing facility that encapsulates American ingenuity and hard work, Wright said that the day after Christmas, at the end of the Biden administration, a rule was passed that would have shut the factory down because its product would have become illegal.

Wright said the closure would have cost hundreds of jobs in Georgia and left millions of Americans without the choice to buy a low-cost water heater, calling the rule downright un-American. He said President Trump was elected to get rid of the nonsense and bring back common sense, and that the factory staying open encapsulates that contrast, as he framed the visit. A company voice in the video added that Secretary Wright looked at the ruling as soon as he came into office and said from day one that it did not make sense and that he supported the company’s position, asking why a more efficient product would be banned, as the executive recounted the department’s early support. The video closed with a clip of President Trump stating that under his administration America is always going to be first.

Why it matters

The Rinnai visit is the appliance-deregulation campaign in miniature: a named factory, a named rule and a jobs count, used by the department to argue that efficiency standards had crossed into banning products Americans want to buy.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright at Rinnai America Corporation - May, 5 2025”, 2025-08-14 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-08-14). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.

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