At the C3 American Leadership in Energy Innovation Summit, Chris Wright laid out the administration’s energy agenda with clarity. His message wasn’t about new mandates or distant, hard-to-achieve targets. It was about throughput—how fast the U.S. can actually build.
Wright argued that America’s real energy constraint is no longer technology or capital, but permitting and process, framing energy dominance as abundance that lowers prices, strengthens competitiveness, and improves living standards. From permitting reform to nuclear power to climate realism, Wright argued that durable energy policy should be guided by “humans and math,” not bureaucracy.
His remarks and fireside chat are below.
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