Brendan Bechtel Statement on Energy and Innovation Summit
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Brendan Bechtel
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bechtel
I’m honored to join President Trump, Senator McCormick, and other business, government, and labor leaders at today’s Energy & Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh.
This is a crucial conversation at the right time. America’s leadership in AI and energy will hinge on building the data centers and power sources to run them. The U.S. has the talent, resources, and vision to meet this challenge. But delivering this infrastructure at the unprecedented scale and speed necessary will take more than just ambition. Ambition has to be turned into real-world execution.
Meeting the promise of these projects, in Pennsylvania and across the U.S., means acting now to solve challenges and remove bottlenecks that stand in the way. We must work together to address tight supply chains for steel and critical equipment, accelerate construction of new natural gas-fired power and nuclear projects, grow the country’s skilled workforce, and responsibly improve and speed up our permitting processes.
Bechtel’s decades of experience and innovation have taught us what works, what doesn’t, and what it takes to get the world’s most challenging projects done. In the energy sector, Bechtel has built roughly one-third of global LNG capacity and designed, built, or provided construction services for 150 nuclear plants, including America’s first new reactors in 30 years and, currently, its first small modular and advanced reactors.
Bechtel stands ready to help deliver the infrastructure that will power America’s AI future and unlock our energy resources – but we’re also grounded in the realities of what it will take to achieve this. That’s the lens I’m bringing to today’s summit.
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Brendan Bechtel
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bechtel