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
President here. Thank you. This evening. Public comment on all items will be heard under section e. Public comment. This includes Public Comment for agenda non agenda items, a speaker card must be turned in to staff in order to speak. Oh if you just took out one of the speakers. Oh oh. Um okay. Accessibility information Translation Services and information on how to observe the meeting are all posted online at this time before the board goes into closed session, i call for any speakers to the closed session items listed in the agenda. There will be a total of five minutes for speakers at this time. Um is there anyone here for public speaking on this item . Yes president muhammadu, theres one person in person, so we will have one minute for Public Comment. Can you hear me . Great. Thank you so much. Um, good evening commissioners. My name is kevin ortiz. Im the copresident of the San Francisco latinx democratic club. Um, i am here today to urge you to look into the state Supreme Court c
President here. Thank you. This evening. Public comment on all items will be heard under section e. Public comment. This includes Public Comment for agenda non agenda items, a speaker card must be turned in to staff in order to speak. Oh if you just took out one of the speakers. Oh oh. Um okay. Accessibility information Translation Services and information on how to observe the meeting are all posted online at this time before the board goes into closed session, i call for any speakers to the closed session items listed in the agenda. There will be a total of five minutes for speakers at this time. Um is there anyone here for public speaking on this item . Yes president muhammadu, theres one person in person, so we will have one minute for Public Comment. Can you hear me . Great. Thank you so much. Um, good evening commissioners. My name is kevin ortiz. Im the copresident of the San Francisco latinx democratic club. Um, i am here today to urge you to look into the state Supreme Court c
President here. Thank you. This evening. Public comment on all items will be heard under section e. Public comment. This includes Public Comment for agenda non agenda items, a speaker card must be turned in to staff in order to speak. Oh if you just took out one of the speakers. Oh oh. Um okay. Accessibility information Translation Services and information on how to observe the meeting are all posted online at this time before the board goes into closed session, i call for any speakers to the closed session items listed in the agenda. There will be a total of five minutes for speakers at this time. Um is there anyone here for public speaking on this item . Yes president muhammadu, theres one person in person, so we will have one minute for Public Comment. Can you hear me . Great. Thank you so much. Um, good evening commissioners. My name is kevin ortiz. Im the copresident of the San Francisco latinx democratic club. Um, i am here today to urge you to look into the state Supreme Court c