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Wright Takes Questions at a Press Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Apr. 29, 2026

April 29, 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:04:11

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright held a press conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in the Department of Energy’s upload of the April 29, 2026 event, opening with extended remarks before taking questions. Wright noted it was his third trip to a Three Seas nation in his 14 to 15 months in office, and said the administration looks to the region — Croatia, the Balkans, and the Baltic republics — for “the next growth, the next step forward,” describing its societies as dynamic, pro-energy, and faster-growing than Western Europe’s.

Wright argued that Western European “energy subtraction policies” had stopped growth and exported energy-intensive industries to Asia without helping the climate, and said the United States wants partners that are “dynamic, economically growing, industrially strong, militarily strong.” He welcomed the announcement of a major data-center investment in Croatia with its supporting power production, which he called the greatest investment in Croatian history, and pointed to multi-billion-dollar energy deals signed in the preceding days to supply Croatia and its neighbors, as he described them.

Why it matters

The Dubrovnik press conference is the press-facing version of Wright’s Croatia case: the Three Seas region presented as the model — energy addition, new infrastructure, data centers — that he argues the rest of Europe should follow, with American investment and energy supply as the binding agent.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the Croatia investment announcements as described by Secretary Wright on April 29, 2026 — a data-center investment he called the largest in Croatian history and multi-billion-dollar regional energy deals signed in the preceding days, as he stated them. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Participates in Press Conference Dubrovnik, Croatia - April 29, 2026” (official upload, embedded above; remarks as delivered by Secretary Wright).