Cspan, 45 years and counting, powered by cable. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Held a hearing on the challenges associated with growing demand for electric power in the United States. The witnesses outlined the potential cost and security risks of retiring natural gas plants too soon and called for a balanced approach that included nuclear and Renewable Energy sources. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. Today we ask you to discuss the risk of opportunities. In the halfcentury after world war ii, demand for electricity grew along with our economy, but in the decade following, the implementation of the freetrade agreement, which was in the 1990s, annual electricity demand growth fell by nearly 45 . 45 . For the past two decades, the demand and load has been flat across the country. We are here today because that appears to be coming to an end rapidly. With exponential growth, utility and grid experts are telling us that it is poised for truly remarkable growth. Meeting
At 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Now we are going to take you over to the Senate Energy committee hearing. It is getting underway now come alive on cspan. We will talk about the growing demand for electric power in the u. S. And the impact on the electric grid. Here it is. Today we ask you to discuss the risk of opportunities. In the halfcentury after world war ii, demand for electricity grew along with our economy, but in the decade following, the implementation of the freetrade agreement, which was in the 1990s, annual electricity demand growth fell by nearly 45 . 45 . For the past two decades, the demand and load has been flat across the country. We are here today because that appears to be coming to an end rapidly. With exponential growth, utility and grid experts are telling us that it is poised for truly remarkable growth. Meeting the demand growth may be one of the greatest challenges we face. Our economy and defense of our country i want to thank the witnesses for sharing their perspecti
With Steve Paulson. Pretty mild weather. Well its getting warm. Yeah, it is getting it felt a little warmer this morning. Okay three days is going to be an upper 80s, low 90s, inland. Theres no fog out there at all at all. So 50s on the temps right now and if youre looking for warmer temps theyre on their way. Theres nothing out there. So the coast is clear skies are clear and temps are bumping up 70s 80s to near 90 degrees. Thanks sals out there telling us that hopefully its quiet there are some cones here and there. No, youre kidding. Theres cones on 80. Yes here and there. Steve have you talked to your doctor about kilonova yet . Yes, i have. You know, its an expensive prescription, so i just lets lets. Ill come back. Lets go. Lets go out and talk about 80. There were some cones. They picked them up near the carquinez bridge, westbound 80. So thats nice and clear. There are some cones here in san pablo as you drive. Its not affecting traffic. People are driving by at the speed limit
The storm system irtself is a couple hundred miles offshore. Clouds in place for much of the day. We have a couple of returns on live doppler 7 but the atmosphere still so dry that this is evaporating weave before it reaches the surface. Our storm system out to sea a couple hundred miles away from us. It is moving in our direction, and it will bring us our next chance of rain. Future weather, when do we expect rain . Tomorrow morning, 11 00 a. M. , thats when we expect that storm system close enough moving onshore that youll begin to see some drops reach the ground. With this storm system we do have a chance of seeing a thundershower. The Storm Prediction Center which monitors the entire u. S. For a chance of a thundershower is placing the region under an isolated chance any shower that does poppive could have lightning and hail. Well time out the storm system in a few minutes. People in san jose are still rebuilding from last years devastating floods and theyre not happy to see severa
Democrats, right now, your governments not functioning and with this cloud over the administration and over the republican party, as they have not partnered with us to get to the truth, its very hard for them or for us collectively to govern. So the sooner we get to the truth, the better for the american public. Thank you for joining us today and giving us a limb insight. Lets tonight our coverage with nbc news anchor kristen . Naming former fbi director mueller as special counsel and right away President Trump has responded. President donald trump released a statement tonight reading as i have stated many times a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know, there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. The white house had only a 30minute heads up about this announcement. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had been pressuring acting attorney general Rob Rosenstein to get the appointmentep i after back to b allegations first that President Trump gave