Top DOE official previews high-profile infrastructure report

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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz's top adviser today acknowledged the tardiness of a highprofile report on the state of the country's energy infrastructure and provided a sneak preview of its policy recommendations for aging pipelines and transmission. Melanie Kenderdine, the Energy Department's director of energy policy and systems analysis, said at an Atlantic Council event in Washington, D.C., that she had hoped the Quadrennial Energy Review would be complete by now, but that Moniz expects to have a final version of the report when he testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on April 28. While Kenderdine offered few specifics about the report, she outlined the agency's focus on the challenges the United States' power lines, railways, pipelines and power plants are facing from a surge of increasingly violent weather, age, competing interests and shifting trends with the discovery of shale gas. DOE has held 14 stakeholder outreach meetings across the country, as well as a meeting in Canada and a conference call with officials in Mexico to discuss the QER.