Interagency Quadrennial Energy Report Expected Before April Senate Hearing

摘要

The anticipated Quadrennial Energy Report, an interagency assessment of national energy policy, is expected to be released prior to an April 28 Senate hearing, a senior Department of Energy official said April 2. The Obama administration directed 22 agencies, including the DOE, to issue the report every four years, with the first due Jan. 31, 2015. Now it is expected to be released prior to a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing April 28, which will focus on the report's recommendations, Melanie Kenderdine, energy counselor to DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz, said at an April 2 Atlantic Council event. The report will focus on energy transmission, storage and distribution infrastructure, and the challenges facing the country's aging system used to transmit, transport and deliver energy. She noted that more than 50 percent of the country's gas transmission and gathering pipelines were built in the 1940's-1960's. Other challenges to infrastructure include climate change, cyber-security, and supply and demand shifts, Kenderdine said.