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Wright Delivers Remarks at the Three Seas Initiative in Croatia, Apr. 29, 2026

April 29, 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:20:36

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright delivered remarks at the Three Seas Initiative gathering in Croatia, in the Department of Energy’s upload of the April 29, 2026 event. Wright opened with his signature framing — “energy is life; the absence of energy is despair, poverty, and ultimately death” — and argued that the rise in global life expectancy from about 30 years to over 70 tracks the arrival of modern energy, as he presented the history.

Wright named what he called the world’s greatest energy challenge: the two billion people, a quarter of humanity, who still cook and heat with wood, dung, or agricultural waste indoors, which he said the World Health Organization estimates causes two to three million deaths a year from indoor air pollution. He contrasted the dynamism he said he had heard from Central and Eastern European leaders at the conference with Western Europe’s course, saying the United Kingdom produces more than 20 percent less electricity than it did 15 years ago at roughly triple the price, with Germany on a similar path, as he stated the figures.

Why it matters

The Three Seas address is Wright’s energy-abundance doctrine delivered to the European audience he says can still change course: the Central and Eastern European nations he casts as Europe’s growth engine, against the Western European record he holds up as the warning.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: Secretary Wright’s dated figures at the Three Seas Initiative on April 29, 2026 — the two-to-three-million annual indoor-air-pollution deaths estimate he attributed to the World Health Organization, and his UK and German electricity comparisons, all as he stated them. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Delivers Remarks at Three Seas Initiative in Croatia - April 29, 2026” (official upload, embedded above; remarks as delivered by Secretary Wright).