President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, Chris Wright, will play a vital role in the incoming administration’s goal of increasing oil production and lowering energy costs for people.

Liberty Energy CEO Wright is an MIT and Berkeley trained engineer. He's not a fan of solar and wind power, but has invested in next-gen nuclear and geothermal startups.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Chris Wright, a CEO of a fracking company, as his pick for secretary of the Department of Energy. Trump called Wright “a leading technologist and entrepreneur in Energy,