Good afternoon and thank you for coming. My name is siri worthington, executive director of the United States Energy Association and this is a us ea briefing on addressing Energy Poverty in the United States, a federal state collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for your sca. But one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation. Because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. It always been urgent but i think myself that the urgency is growing so thank you all for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today. Or our discussion, we hope to have audience participationas well. Moderating todays session is mark will, mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion forthe need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local andregional energy and housing financing. He is consulted regularly for general
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Topic for usea but one that were eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. Theyve always been urgent, but i think, myself, that the urgency is growing. So thank all of you for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today for our discussion. We hope to have audience participation as well. Moderating todays session is mark wolfe. Mark will provide a discussion and will moderate the discussion on the need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist and is an expert on local and Regional Energy and housing financing. He has consulted regularly for federal, state foundation and nonprofit agencies. He is very experienced at testifying before congress, and he is the executive director of the National Energy assistance Directors Association. And the Energy Program consortium and is the Founding Partner of project energy saver
Good. Splendid. Perfect. New orleans. Morning to all of you. And welcome to the National World war two museum and, our new and lovely battle, barksdale Parade Ground on behalf the board of trustees of the National World war two museum. I want to thank you for honoring us with your presence here today. It is indeed a momentous day in the life of this great institution. With the opening of the liberation, we finally tell the full story of the American Experience in the war that changed the world, a story that now includes words, an understanding of the cost of victory and its meaning. Today, with the opening of this capstone pavilion and we bring to completion a journey that began 23 years ago, or as our founder nick mueller would more accurate aptly states. If you include its inception as a mere idea and ten years of planning, 33 years. But on june six, 2000, the 56 anniversary of the dday invasion, we gathered nearby to celebrate the opening of the National Dday museum and the beginnin