President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Chris Wright, the CEO and founder of Liberty Energy, will lead the Department of Energy in his new administration.

“I am pleased to announce that Chris Wright will join my administration as United States Secretary of Energy and as a member of the newly formed Council of National Energy,” Trump said in a statement released Saturday.

The newly elected president wrote that Wright “has been a leading energy technologist and entrepreneur.”

“He has worked in nuclear energy, solar energy, geothermal energy and oil and gas,” Trump’s statement said. “Most importantly, Chris was one of the pioneers who helped launch the American shale revolution that fueled American energy independence and transformed global energy markets and geopolitics.”

According to Liberty Energy’s website, Wright graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. He also completed his graduate work in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and MIT.

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Trump has picked Chris Wright to lead the Department of Energy. (Getty Images/Reuters)

“(Wright) is a tech geek turned entrepreneur and a committed humanist on a mission to improve human lives by expanding access to abundant, affordable and reliable energy,” according to the company’s website.

The announcement of the key administration position comes after Trump made independent energy and boosting oil and gas production a cornerstone of his campaign. During his campaign, Trump pledged to expand fracking and lift a pause on liquefied natural gas exports, a sharp contrast from his predecessor.

“They destroyed your steel mills, decimated your coal jobs, attacked your oil and gas jobs and sold your manufacturing jobs to China and other foreign countries around the world,” Trump said of the Biden administration last month at a campaign event in Pennsylvania. .

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The president-elect has also pledged to use his second term in the White House to re-exit the Paris climate accord, roll back strict vehicle and power plant emissions standards and boost U.S. oil and gas production, including through of fracking.

Trump’s nominees and administration choices during his second administration are being announced publicly at a much faster pace than during his first administration in 2016, which the transition team attributed to Trump’s commitment to “putting America first.”

Newly elected US President Donald Trump attends the America First Policy Institute Gala at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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“The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin, giving him a mandate to deliver on the promises he made during his campaign – and his Cabinet choices reflect his priority of putting America first. President Trump will continue to appoint highly qualified men and women who have the talent, experience and necessary skills to make America great again,” Karoline Leavitt, spokeswoman for the Trump-Vance transition, told Fox News Digital at her was asked about Trump’s rapid rollout of Cabinet picks.

Under his first administration, Trump tapped former Texas Governor Rick Perry for the position, before Dan Brouillette took over in 2019. Trump did not announce his choice of Perry until December 14, 2016, putting him ahead of the nomination for his first term. process.

Chris Wright, center, will lead the Department of Energy in the new Trump administration. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

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On the energy front, Trump is also reportedly planning to install an “energy czar” to roll back energy and climate regulations put in place under the Biden administration, and has already named former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin as his choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

Fox News Digital’s Breanne Deppisch and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.