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Ways to improve cyberSecurity Issues for the Energy Sector. Witnesses stressed the importance of protecting the Us Energy Grid and what the government can do now to help prepare for potential attacks, held by the Senate Energy committee, this is almost two hours. Good morning, the committee will come to order. We are here this morning to examine federal and industry efforts to improve the cybersecurity of the Energy Sector including efforts to improve collaboration on Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure protection initiatives. It has been more than a year since we last held a hearing on ....
[inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. The committee will come to orde order. We are here this morning to review ongoing Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the Virgin Islands in weeks of Hurricane Irma. We are now over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and st. John on september 6. Its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. This is a little over a week ago that senators cassidys, franken and i, along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors, the governor or cello for your hospitality, the time that you gave ....
Hero and vermont founding father ethan allen. He was the first, then commandant of the Green Mountain boys. They were the largest paramilitary source in north america, if not for the actions allen. Alan ethan a visit to the Lake Champlain maritime museum. Lake itcas first great is a 140 miles long water superhighway that cuts between the Green Mountains of vermont and the adirondacks of new york. Cspan cities tour of. Urlington, vermont sunday at 2 p. M. On American History tv at cspan3 working with our cable affiliates explore america. The governors of puerto rico im a Virgin Islands testified about hurricane recovery efforts. There is also testimony from utility officials including the director of the puert ....
Power system in the northeast and mid atlantic due to increasing Winter Weather events, including the bomb cyclone. I would like to start by calling on the Ranking Member to give her opening statement. Thank you, chair, and good morning to everyone. Im sure that senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people may know, a 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska, impacting co kodiak and parts of the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings that were issued for activities that were expected, and those warnings for tsunami waves have been recalled but no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things this morning related to that and other issues. So, impa want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker, for being here and many of the staffs that people have here that were glad w ....
Im sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people noah 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska with northwest warnings issuesed for activities that were expected the warning for the tsunami waves have been recalled and no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things related to that. I want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here and the staff people that are here and blade we are back in operation. So we look forward from hearing all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. Last year, secretary perry and the staff viewed the liability of the fuel mix and i was relieved when i saw the staff report in august which i thought was balanced. It carefully distinguished between reliability and resilience and introducing Renewable Resources rgs synthetic i inertia and frequency response and resilience metrics needed to be ....