"Yes, typically, the way that works is that you go to the Commission with a project. They approve it and they approve the rates that you would need to collect to recover it, yes."
"Economywide, affordable, and driving innovation."
"I believe in American ingenuity. And that's why we are here today."
"I happen to believe, especially after our conversation today; it is more complicated than that."
"we have supported the California policy, which is to work out of using gas as a fossil fuel into the future; we have supported it in several instances where it made sense in new construction to ban ga..."
"The most important technology in the short term is materials that keep our conductors from sparking."
"Anything that we can do to use energy smarter, more resiliently, to use less of it, because it is a precious resource."
"I think the states have to take their part in the forest management pieces of state lands."
"We have been largely spared in Ohio from the devastation of wildfires, and I do share my colleagues' concern that something has to be done."
"I want to thank both committee chairs for holding this hearing today."
"The essential problem for fire and electric equipment is a piece of vegetation hits the line. There is a spark. It causes a fire."