A Report to the U.S. DOE: IEEE Shares Its Insights on Priority Issues [Leader's Corner]

UU.S. President Obama issued a presidential memorandum in January 2014 directing several federal agencies to undertake a quadrennial energy review (QER ), the first of which focuses on the development of a comprehensive strategy for the infrastructure involved in transporting, transmitting, and delivering energy, and report back in January 2015. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), under the leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Domestic Policy Council, requested the IEEE to provide insights on a specific set of priority issues. Spearheaded by the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and IEEE -USA, a multidisciplinary, IEEE - wide task force consisting of IEEE leaders from its membership delivered a report to the DOE on 8 September 2014. Discusses the specifics of this report.