Congressional Testimony

Below is testimony given to Congress by various members of OE.

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Bruce J. Walker before the U.S. Senate Committee on Legislative Energy Bills – July 9, 2019

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Bruce J. Walker before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources on the rebuilding and privatization of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) – April 9, 2019

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Bruce J. Walker before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources on Puerto Rico’s Grid – July 25, 2018 

• Testimony of Bruce J. Walker, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity (OE) and Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), before the United States House Science, Space, and Technology Energy Subcommittee  on the Electric Grid of the Future – June 7, 2018

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Bruce J. Walker before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the hurricane response and recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands - April 11, 2018  

• Testimony of William Parks, Senior Technical Advisor, before the Subcommittee on National Security, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives on challenges to hurricane response and recovery efforts in Puerto Rico - March 21, 2018

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Bruce J. Walker before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Cybersecurity in the Nation’s Critical Energy Infrastructure - March 1, 2018

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Bruce Walker before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Performance of the Electric Power System Under Certain Weather Conditions – January 23, 2018

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Bruce Walker before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Hurricane Recovery Efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands - November 14, 2017

• Testimony of Patricia Hoffman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy on energy security and emergency response issues related to this active hurricane season - November 2, 2017

• Testimony of Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia Hoffman before the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection on the continuing threats facing our national energy infrastructure and the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) role in supporting the cybersecurity of the nation’s energy infrastructure – October 3, 2017

• Testimony of Patricia Hoffman, Acting Assistant Secretary for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy at the FERC Reliability Technical Conference – June 22, 2017   

• Testimony of Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia Hoffman before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on efforts to protect U.S. energy delivery systems from cybersecurity threats – April 4, 2017

• Testimony of Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia Hoffman before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the views of the Department of Energy (DOE) on S. 79, the Securing Energy Infrastructure Act – March 28, 2017 

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Patricia Hoffman before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy regarding S.3018, the Securing Energy Infrastructure Act – July 12, 2016 

• Testimony Of Patricia Hoffman, Assistant Secretary For Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy, at the FERC Reliability Conference – June 1, 2016

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Patricia Hoffman before the House Homeland Security Committee, Oversight And Management Efficiency Subcommittee - May 17, 2016

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Patricia Hoffman before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management - April 14, 2016

• Testimony of Dr. Imre Gyuk, Program Manager for Energy Storage Research, before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Energy – May 1, 2015

• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Patricia Hoffman before the United States House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development on the FY 2016 Budget - March 17, 2015

Congressional testimony given to Congress before 2015 is available HERE.