Obama Administration’s First Quadrennial Energy Review Portrayed as Policymakers’ 'Roadmap' for Energy and Infrastructure Issues

摘要

The Obama Administration unveiled its first Quadrennial Energy Review (QER)3 last week, and this week promoted it around Washington D.C. at a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on April 28 and at the U.S. Energy Association’s (USEA) Annual Meeting on April 30. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz, who led the interagency review, presented the findings of the almost 400-page report, Quadrennial Energy Review: Energy Transmission, Storage, And Distribution Infrastructure, which examined the state of energy infrastructure in the U.S.