And fibers of the security and National Threat concerns. This subcommittee hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but ive read some history, what was like to build the electric grid a century ago. We couldnt of imagine the technologies we use to power our homes and businesses today. The real challenge was extending power itself in every form of our society and there was a challenge that those providing power make money in the cities in well Populated Areas with business and commercial opportunities, with electric the government made a basic deal, we would provide an a monopoly over providing power and a lot of these areas, firms would make a lot of m
All right. This hearing will come to order, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good afternoon, welcome to todays hearing. The future of electricity delivery, modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but i have read history about what it was like when we first started building the electric grid over a century ago now. I dont think we could have imagined the technologies that we would use to power or homes and businesses and hospitals and everything today. And i think the challenge is different, you know, back then the real challenge was just extending power itself throughout every corner of our society, and there was a challenge which was that those providing power knew they could make money in the cities in well Populated Areas in places with a lot of business and commercial opportunities, but it was not as p
Order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good afternoon, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery, monetizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as i can tell but ive read some history about what it was like when we first started building the electric brig grade over a century from now. I dont think we could have imagined the tech elegies that we would use to power homes businesses and hospitals and i think the challenge is different. The real challenge was just extending power itself to every corner of our society. There was a challenge that those providing powers knew that they could make money in cities and well Populated Areas and places with businesses and commercial opportunities, but it was not as profitable to take it into the countryside into the hill country of texas for example. The government made a ba
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