At the recent Natural Gas Roundtable in Washington, D.C., Melanie Kenderdine, a senior official at the US Department of Energy (DOE), gave a broad overview of the next installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review, focusing primarily on energy infrastructure and natural gas storage. Kenderdine acknowledged that the interdependen-cies of the natural gas, liquid fuels and electricity infrastructure systems in the US create vulnerabilities to those same systems. The high costs of damages from weather-related shocks, Kenderdine said, has "increased pretty dramatically" in the last few years, with the trend expected to continue in the near future. "Natural gas disruptions are less likely than for electricity but they are more difficult to recover from," she said.
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