We are looking at the reliably of the electric grid, with state utility were presented to us. You are watching live coverage on cspan 3. My heart is full of gratitude. That is the thought right now. To all of you, to my colleagues, to the staff, being the chairman of the house and conference committee, is the ultimate thing in congress. This is been the best. We have a whole other year ahead of us. Thank you for your service. [ applause ]. We have a lot of work to do. Go ahead and get started. State utility regulators have challenges. They have affordable electricity. They have this during this congress. They understand what drives the growing reliability crisis. This is from the entire electricity portfolio over an extended period of time. They have different retail choices. We are relying more on transitional organizations. This is due to environmental growing regulations and agencies. Fans will be on foster fuel generation, and market distortions. These factors are contributing to p
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This was a long stretch. Maybe its been so hot they dont want to fill in. 55 in oakland, 63 lafayette. Black hawk 65. These are trending much cooler than yesterday. Theres your low cloud deck 60s 70s80s. Yes it can be 100 but it wont be 106 107. Its soft and warm. Lets take a look at the commute. If you are driving on the solano commute from fairfield layouts a nicelooking drive. There have been no major problems if youre driving through. Highway 37 looks good it also looks good across crockett to the coradinos bridge and there to the freeway you can see a very short stretch of traffic we can see because of the fog but it is moving along nicely and that the bay bridge toll plaza theres little bit of a backup but still a short delay. Police in palo alto searching for a man who exposed himself to two girls wednesday afternoon in separate incidents. Take a look at this police sketch. In the first Incident Police say the man was in a parked car and called out to a 12yearold girl who was wa
Westbound 580 a little slow traffic coming in. Traffic is pretty good to livermore and pleasanton. I told you 880 would get it still, traffic looking pretty good. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza a little crowding in the cash lanes. Air quality officials have issued another spare the air quality report. You can help by carpooling or taking public transportation. While it may be cooler today Health Officials say be very careful with this heat. There are outreach programs to help the most vulnerable. The Health Department set medical teams to check on the thousands who live in camps like Jurassic Park off of oakland road. They are also worried about people live in their cars. The state power grid is under a lot of pressure. In the bay area alone weather 170,000 customers lost power. Transformants need to cool off and that usually happens in the evening. Over the last couple of days it has primarily been distribution transformer outages. New transformers are lined up, pg e staff
Tonight on cspan2, Energy Secretary talks about the upcoming un conference. Then part of the Federalist Society conference with a discussion on civil rights and criminal justice. Later a look at the Political Engagement of young people around the world Energy Secretary talks about the upcoming Un Climate Change Conference and the Obama Administration policy of promoting clean energy technology. His remarks at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace include questions from the comments. Audience. This is an hour. Good afternoon and welcome. I am the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It is truly an honor and privilege to welcome the sec. Of energy to carnegie. Those who have had the good fortune are familiar with his mit smarts and some of you have had the misfortune of negotiating with him are familiar with his toughness. All of you i suspect our familiar with his viral late night tv appearances. Ive learned a lot from him over the years ernie is not onl