Full Committee Hearing

Full Committee Hearing to Examine the Impacts of Wildfire on Electric Grid Reliability

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Location:  Dirksen Senate Office Building
366

The hearing will be held on Thursday, December 19, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. EST in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.

The purpose of the hearing is to examine the impacts of wildfire on electric grid reliability and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase grid resiliency. 

The hearing will be webcast live on the committee’s website, and an archived video will be available shortly after the hearing concludes. Witness testimony will be available on the website at the start of the hearing.

Members

  1. Lisa Murkowski

    Chairman
    Alaska
  2. Joe Manchin

    Chairman

Witness Panel 1

  1. Mr. Carl Imhoff

    Manager, Electricity Market Sector
    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  2. Mr. Scott Corwin

    Executive Director
    Northwest Public Power Association
  3. Mr. Bill Johnson

    CEO and President
    PG&E Corporation
  4. Dr. B. Don Russell

    Distinguished Professor and Director, Power System Automation Laboratory
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
  5. Dr. Michael Wara

    Senior Research Scholar
    Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Related Files

  1. Final Witness List 12-19-19 SENR Cmte Hrg.pdf
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