The American Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, visited the National Energy Technology Laboratory on Wednesday in Morgantown.
Flanked by national Energy Technology Laboratory staff in Morgantown, Virginia-Western, the man who heads the US energy department has visited installation, warning that when it comes to the United States and its ability to produce, provide and maintain energy, the country is in difficulty.
“We need a new electricity to reindustrialize America to win the AI race and to stop the enormous upward pressure on electricity prices,” said Wright.
KDKA-TV Ross Guidotti sat with Wright to talk about this problem and how Power Pinches has created problems in the region. He says that the first thing necessary is to release the energy capacity of existing factories that are capable of it.
“We are just tight on reserve margins. We have to stop closing coal power plants and we need to facilitate strengthening and capacity building with new factories and getting out of our network,” said Wright.
Wright said that in addition to more power, better and more robust transfer means are necessary, but that will not happen at night. Its plan uses what is available but simply uses it more effectively.
“By a dynamic line rating, by renewing certain lines. It takes too long to build a new transmission, we are also working on it, but it is a solution of several decades,” said Wright.
Wright says that coal will play a role, but the same goes for increased use of natural gas in the region. Wright admits that the concerns of pollution concerning the increase in the use of fossil fuels are legitimate, but it says that not that power and clean air are excluding each other.
“We are sitting here in a fantastic central coal in Virginia-Western Virginia, a very modern coal-fired power plant. You look at what comes out of this battery, it is a light white. It is a water vapor and a water vapor that you see. The older technology, the older factories, you do not only see White, you saw the brown and you saw pollutants in the air. Wright.
But what about green or renewable energies, an industry whose research based in Pittsburgh is at the forefront? He says that it is an excellent idea and that their time happens, however, “3%, perhaps 3.5% today from our power comes from wind, solar and batteries”.