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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 ....
We will call this hearing to order. Welcome, everyone this hearing is entitled the first power system [inaudible] including the cyclone. I would like to start by calling on the Ranking Member to get her opening statement. Thank you, and good morning to everyone. Im sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people may know, a 7. 2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of alaska impacting kodiak and parts of the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings were issued for activities that were expected and those warnings for tsunami waves have been recalled but no doubt, dealing with lots of things this morning related to that and other issues. So i want to thank the witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here and many of the staff people that are glad w you are back in operation. We look forward to hearing from all of the witnesses on the subject of the rel ....
Test test test test test captioning performed by vitac not only the operational aspects but what is needed from a market standpoint since they run the markets in respect to footprints as well. What is needed in a market sense to ensure that resources that are indeed contributing resilience benefits to our grid are properly compensated. Following up on that, both for mr. Van wheelie and mr. Ot ter, to weigh in as well. Data shows that new england was heavily reliant on baseload coal and Nuclear Generation during the recent cold snap. The data shows at the peak of the cold snap, coal fire generation accounted for 7 of dispatched capacity despite being 2. 6 of installed capacity in the region. Really called upon to perform. Additionally, Nuclear Generation accounted for 23 of dispatched capacity, despite only being 12 of the installed capacity. So isnt it fair to conclud ....