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The Quadrennial Energy Review (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date March 20, 2015
Report Number IN10248
Report Type Insight
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The first ever installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) was due to the President January 31, 2015, according to the Presidential Memorandum—Establishing a Quadrennial Energy Review. President Obama established the QER process, which is fashioned on the more well-known Quadrennial Defense Review, on January 9, 2014, in part to develop "a comprehensive and integrated energy strategy resulting from interagency dialogue and active engagement of external stakeholders." The QER is to be based on the Administration's Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future (March 30, 2011) and the Climate Action Plan (June 25, 2013). The concept of the QER was mentioned in the Report to the President on Accelerating the Pace of Change in Energy Technologies Through an Integrated Federal Energy Policy (November 2010) by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, which included current Secretary of Energy Moniz.