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Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat from West Virginia, currently serves as the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Gladys Brown Dutrieuille is Chair of the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission. John Rhodes is chair of the New York Public Service Commission.
Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat from West Virginia, currently serves as the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Senator Manchin discussed the challenging work of addressing our nation's energy needs with a focus on the role State Commissioners play. Co-moderators were Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission Chair Gladys Brown Dutrieuille and New York Public Service Commission Chair John Rhodes.
Senator Joe Manchin: Yesterday the energy committee heard from witnesses across the energy sector about the impacts of coronavirus and solutions needed. We heard targeted assistance is needed, but we also heard that the American Energy Innovation Act is a key part of the solution.
This bipartisan energy innovation package would be the first comprehensive energy policy update in thirteen years. The package draws from fifty-three bills from members on both sides of the aisle and thirty-nine of these bills are bipartisan.
It authorizes approximately twenty-four billion dollars primarily for research and development at the Department of Energy. That includes 3.1 billion for energy efficiency, 3.1 billion for renewables, 1.4 billion for energy storage, and 5.4 billion for carbon capture, utilization and sequestrations, and direct air capture, and 3.8 billion for cyber and grid security.