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TRANSFORMING U.S. ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURES IN A TIME OF RAPID CHANGE:

THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THE QUADRENNIAL ENERGY REVIEW

On January 9, 2014, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the administration to conduct a

Quadrennial Energy Review (QER). As described in the President’s Climate Action Plan, this first­ever review

focuses on energy infrastructure and identifies the threats, risks, and opportunities for U.S. energy and climate

security, enabling the federal government to translate policy goals into a set of integrated actions.

The United States has one of the most advanced energy systems in the world, supplying the reliable, affordable, and

increasingly clean power and fuels that underpin every facet of the Nation’s economy and way of life. The energy

transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure ­­ defined here as the infrastructure that links energy supplies,

energy carriers, or energy by­products to intermediate and end users ­­ is large, complex, and interdependent. It

includes approximately 2.6 million miles of interstate and intrastate pipelines; 414 natural gas storage facilities; 330

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THE QUADRENNIAL ENERGY REVIEW (QER)

The first Quadrennial Energy Review

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PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM

The Presidential Memorandum establishing the QER is available

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ports handling crude petroleum and refined petroleum products; and more than 140,000 miles of railways that handle

crude petroleum, refined petroleum products, LNG and coal. The electrical component of the Nation’s TS&D

infrastructure links more than 19,000 individual generators with a capacity of a megawatt or more (sited at over 7,000

operational power plants), with over 642,000 miles of high­voltage transmission lines and 6.3 million miles of

distribution lines

The first installment of the QER examines how to modernize our nation’s energy infrastructure to promote economic

competitiveness, energy security and environmental responsibility, and is focused on energy transmission, storage,

and distribution (TS&D), the networks of pipelines, wires, storage, waterways, railroads, and other facilities that form

the backbone of our energy system. The QER seeks to identify vulnerabilities in the system and proposes major

policy recommendations and investments to replace, expand, and modernize infrastructure where appropriate.

LEARN MORE

Read the full Quadrennial Energy Review report

Read the Quadrennial Energy Review fact sheet

Read the White House blog on the Quadrennial Energy Review

Supplemental QER Analysis

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