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Wright Defends Offshore Wind Fight on National-Security Grounds on Fox Business

February 5, 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:03:26

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox Business’s Stuart Varney that the administration would keep fighting five offshore wind projects along the Northeast coast, according to the Department of Energy’s upload of the interview. Wright said the projects raised national-security concerns: drawing on the Russia-Ukraine war’s lessons about drone warfare, he argued a ship inside an offshore wind farm could mask a drone swarm from radar. He said the administration was looking for solutions to that problem but that it was not clear solutions exist.

Wright welcomed Siemens Energy’s $1 billion investment in U.S. gas turbine manufacturing and said much more foreign money would follow, crediting the President’s trade policies and what he called a return of common sense to energy policy. He said natural gas is the largest source of U.S. electricity and criticized prior EPA carbon-capture rules he said made new gas plants uneconomic.

Wright argued wind and solar had failed to perform at peak demand during a recent storm while gas, coal and nuclear carried the grid, and that spending on intermittent sources had raised costs and pushed business offshore. He said the administration’s task was to grow firm electric generating capacity for consumers and for reshoring industry.

Why it matters

The segment gives the administration’s stated security rationale for its offshore wind litigation — radar masking for drone swarms — alongside its positive case for gas turbines and firm generation, as Wright presented both.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Fox Business’ Stuart Varney - February 5, 2026”, 2026-02-05 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-02-05). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.