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Chapter X: Analytical and Stakeholder Process<br />

QER Systems Analysis<br />

The QER is a policy document based on robust systems/policy analysis and extensive stakeholder and<br />

interagency engagement (see Figure 10-1). These connected efforts support the findings and recommendations<br />

described in the main QER document, as well as the Natural Gas, Liquid Fuels, and Electricity appendices.<br />

Figure 10-1. Inputs to the QER 1<br />

TS&D<br />

Baselines<br />

Economic<br />

Competitiveness<br />

Stakeholder<br />

Meetings<br />

JOBS<br />

ENVIRONMENT<br />

SITING<br />

Scenarios<br />

and<br />

Modeling<br />

NATURAL GAS<br />

Increasing the<br />

Resilience, Reliability,<br />

Safety, and Asset<br />

Security of TS&D<br />

Infrastructure<br />

LIQUID FUELS<br />

Stakeholder<br />

Comments<br />

ANALYSIS<br />

Improving<br />

Shared<br />

Transport<br />

Infrastructures<br />

ENERGY<br />

INFRASTRUCTURE<br />

FOR THE 21ST<br />

CENTURY<br />

Modernizing<br />

the Electric Grid<br />

STAKEHOLDER<br />

ENGAGEMENT<br />

Analysis of<br />

Disruptive<br />

Events<br />

Modernizing U.S. Energy<br />

Security Infrastructures in<br />

a Changing Global<br />

Marketplace<br />

Technical<br />

Workshops<br />

Environmental<br />

Responsibility<br />

ELECTRICITY<br />

Synthesis<br />

of Available<br />

Work<br />

Interagency<br />

Engagement<br />

High Level Goals Energy Infrastructure Objectives Crosscutting Issues<br />

This figure shows the analytical, stakeholder, and interagency efforts underpinning the QER.<br />

In the Presidential Memorandum establishing the QER, President Obama directed the QER Task Force to<br />

conduct policy analysis and modeling to support QER recommendations and actions. The Department of<br />

Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis (EPSA)—serving as secretariat for the QER<br />

Task Force—undertook an extensive suite of analyses, focusing on energy TS&D infrastructures. This effort<br />

included the following:<br />

• Commissioned analyses from DOE national laboratories, including scenario modeling, synthesis, and<br />

white papers.<br />

• Commissioned analyses from energy consulting and analytics firms, including modeling, baselines, and<br />

scenarios.<br />

• Internal EPSA analysis—in collaboration with partners across DOE and other Federal agencies—to<br />

generate analysis, policy working papers, and public reports.<br />

• Overlapping analysis with stakeholder engagement efforts and technical workshops with associated<br />

analytical products.<br />

10-2 QER Report: Energy Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Infrastructure | April 2015

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