Mark Udall

As you develop greater understanding, I'd certainly appreciate the NRC sharing with us your thinking and the direction in which you're heading.

This is really, really great. I don't have to have an enrichment capability.

Would others care to comment?

Let me follow up before I turn to Mr. Pietrangelo.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, let me acknowledge the hard work of you and Senator Murkowski.

I can say confidently that the Bingaman/Murkowski/Udall legislation represents a strong foundational effort to augment the Federal Government's role in U.S. modular reactor development in a way that furthers our environmental, foreign…

I just want to thank you and Senator Murkowski for holding this important hearing.

I foresee--I am not a good forecaster--hundreds in the next--I would say 500, 700 megawatts of battery in the PJM system is not unreasonable to expect.

I would urge you to do so.

I wanted to pursue this line of questioning. As I understand, interruptions to our power systems cost us about $80 billion annually.

If we find a way to store the power generated from the sun and the wind, really all energy resources, then we can transform the energy industry forever.

This could very well be a game-changer.

The effect on the price of regulation services.

That is astounding to me, and this seems to be a real opportunity for storage because storage can help reduce those outages.

Power interruptions cost the United States economy roughly $80 billion per year.

I think we can move forward in the storage area in a bipartisan way.

So, at this point, you are exploring both the idea of a centralized storage approach and a decentralized storage approach.

It holds the promise of dramatically increasing capacity utilizations of the generation, transmission, and distribution system.

But again, those are going to be primarily within the purview of State commissions to work with State utilities at the distribution level.

I look forward to receiving a copy of it when you complete it.

Senator Udall has urged that we have this hearing.

Knowing its own history will make this nation as world leader much more credible and effective.

Thank you for your service, on behalf of all the members of this subcommittee and the Senate in general.

I, too, want to offer my welcome to the York family. I think every American is familiar with that phenomenal story from World War I.

America is a place, but it's also an idea; and you keep both alive by pursuing what you're proposing.