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Wright Delivers Remarks at the IEA Clean Cooking Event, Sep. 23, 2026

September 23, 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:04:47

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright delivered remarks at the International Energy Agency’s Clean Cooking Event, in the Department of Energy’s upload of the September 23, 2026 session. Wright was introduced by IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, and the session marked the inaugural plenary of the restructured Clean Cooking Alliance, now hosted by the IEA as a multilateral initiative, according to coverage of the meeting.

Wright described affordable propane as a practical solution capable of transforming billions of lives, as his remarks were reported from the meeting, which drew fresh commitments of $900 million toward clean cooking access. The alliance’s new framework emphasizes tracking both financial disbursements and the number of clean cooking solutions actually reaching households, according to the same coverage.

Why it matters

Clean cooking is where Wright’s energy-poverty argument meets foreign policy: the same case he makes for American energy abundance — that hydrocarbons, delivered affordably, are a development tool — carried into a multilateral room, under an IEA roof.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Delivers Remarks at IEA Clean Cooking Event” (official upload, embedded above); coverage of the Clean Cooking Alliance plenary, September 2026.