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Wright on Ingraham: Offshore Wind Guarantees Expensive Electricity; U.S. Is 'Not Going There,' Sept. 4, 2025

September 5, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:06:09

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that criticism of the administration for halting offshore wind projects rests on a wild misunderstanding of how the electricity grid works, according to Wright. Unlike a car, he said, the grid must match supply and demand at every moment; when evening demand rises, natural gas, coal, nuclear, and hydro rise to meet it, as they have for a hundred years, according to the interview.

Wright said wind and solar do not show up predictably: the reliable fleet must turn down when the wind blows and back up when it dies, and at peak demand — hot and cold high-pressure periods — the wind is not blowing and, in the evening, the sun is not shining, so all the other equipment is still needed to keep people alive and the lights on, according to Wright. He said the extra generation, distribution grid, land, and materials were guaranteed ways to increase the price of electricity, according to the interview.

Asked about the largely foreign-run offshore wind fields off the Northeast, Wright said three countries built a lot of offshore wind — Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom — and that those countries compete for the most expensive electricity in the world, according to the interview. He said that is the road offshore wind leads down, that it is not President Trump’s agenda, and that the administration wants to win the AI race, bring down costs, and keep power reliable, according to Wright.

Why it matters

The interview is the energy secretary’s fullest televised case against offshore wind: a grid-reliability argument and a price argument drawn from the three countries he named as the cautionary example.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Chris Wright Joins Laura Ingraham on Fox News – September 4, 2025”, 2025-09-05 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-09-05). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.