Committee Hearings – Week of 3-26-17

This week both the House and Senate will be in session. There are a number of committee hearings that will be held on both sides of the Capitol, but there is only one, a cybersecurity hearing, that may be of specific interest to readers of this blog.

On Tuesday the Energy Subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will be holding a hearing to look at cybersecurity threats to the US electric grid. The hearing will also receive testimony on S 79, the Securing Energy Infrastructure Act. The witness list includes:

• Michael Bardee, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;

• John DiStasio, Large Public Power Council;

• Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and

• Ben Fowke III, Xcel Energy