The purpose of this oversight hearing is to examine the progress on
smart grid initiatives authorized in the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007, and funded in the stimulus bill, and to learn of
opportunities and impediments to timely installation of smart grid
technologies.
Witnesses
Panel 1
- Suedeen Kelly, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Patricia Hoffman, Department of Energy
- Dr. Patrick Gallagher, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Panel 2
- Frederick Butler, National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners
- Katherine Hamilton, GridWise Alliance
- Edward Lu, Google Inc.
- Evan Gaddis, National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
106 Dirksen
03/03/2009 at 10:00AM
Witnesses
- Robin Nazzaro, GAO director for natural
resources and the environment
- Mary Kendall, Interior deputy inspector general
From E&E News:
“This is a pre-budget hearing to get an assessment from [watchdog
agencies] on the functioning of the department,” said George Behan,
chief of staff to Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Norm
Dicks (D-Wash.).
Robin Nazzaro, director for natural resources and the environment for
the Government Accountability Office, said committee members did not
give her any specifics on which issues to address when she testifies.
“The focus is just oversight of the Department of Interior so we will
talk about a number of areas that we feel are major management
challenges for the department based on the work that we’ve done over
the last few years,” she said Friday. . . Interior Deputy Inspector
General Mary Kendall will testify about the many issues of concern to
the IG’s office. Kendall is filling in for Inspector General Earl
Devaney as he takes a leave to chair a federal watchdog panel
overseeing the economic stimulus law.
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Interior and Environment Subcommittee
B-308 Rayburn
03/03/2009 at 09:30AM
From February 27-March 2, more than 11,000 student climate leaders
descended on Washington, DC to take part in the Power Shift Climate
Action Conference and Capitol Hill day of action. Congressman Ed Markey
(D-Mass), Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and
Global Warming, held a special Congressional briefing with student
leaders on Monday, March 2, 2009, at 1:30 PM, in 2172 Rayburn House
Office Building.
The Congressional briefing, entitled “Youth Climate: Green Jobs, Clean
Futures,” featured testimony from campus leaders and youth activists
whose lives have been impacted by global warming and are meeting the
climate challenge by building a clean energy future. Witnesses included
a young cancer survivor who is now fighting to curb pollution in her
local community, the son of an oil worker who is working to bring green
jobs to New Mexico, a United Nations Climate Change youth delegate, a
student entrepreneur who started a clean energy fund, and the head of
the Energy Action Coalition.
House Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee
2172 Rayburn
03/02/2009 at 01:30PM
Other Hearings in the Series:
- Oversight hearing entitled: “Offshore Drilling: Environmental and
Commercial Perspectives” scheduled on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at
10:00 a.m., in Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building.
- Oversight hearing entitled: “Offshore Drilling: State Perspectives”
scheduled on Wednesday, February 24, 2009 at 10:00 a.m., in Room 1324
Longworth House Office Building.
House Natural Resources Committee
1324 Longworth
02/25/2009 at 10:00AM
Other Hearings in the Series:
- Oversight hearing entitled: “Offshore Drilling: Environmental and
Commercial Perspectives” scheduled on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at
10:00 a.m., in Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building.
- Oversight hearing entitled: “Offshore Drilling: Industrial
Perspectives” scheduled on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.,
in Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building.
House Natural Resources Committee
1324 Longworth
02/24/2009 at 10:00AM
The kickoff of the Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource
Center at
Georgetown Law will take place on Monday, February 23, 2009, from 5:00 –
8:00 p.m. on the 12th Floor of the Gewirz Student Center, located on the
Georgetown Law campus at 120 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Gov. Chris Gregoire (D-Wash.) and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kan.) will
deliver remarks at 5:30 p.m. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Lisa Jackson will speak at 6:30 p.m.
Georgetown Climate Center
District of Columbia
02/23/2009 at 05:00PM
Speaker: Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary
Please join Platts reporters and other credentialed journalists as
Energy Secretary Steven Chu remarks on the President’s American Recovery
and Reinvestment plan. Chu was confirmed by the US Senate in January as
the 12th energy secretary, after having been the director of
DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in
California. A scientist and co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1997, Chu has devoted his recent career to the search for new solutions
to energy challenges and stopping global climate change.
Please contact Nancy Covey at Platts at [email protected].
Location: McGraw-Hill/Platts, Washington Office, 1200 G St., NW, Ste.
1000
Platts
District of Columbia
02/19/2009 at 01:00PM
The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the current state
of the Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program, authorized under
Title 17 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and how the delivery of
services to support the deployment of clean energy technologies might be
improved.
Witnesses
- David Frantz, Director of Loan Guarantee Program, Department of Energy
- Andy Karsner, Distinguished Fellow, Council on Competitiveness
- Kevin Book, Senior Vice President, Energy Policy, Oil & Alternative
Energy, Friedman Billings Ramsey & Company, Inc.
- James Asselstine, Managing Director, Barclays Capital
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
366 Dirksen
02/12/2009 at 10:00AM