During her tenure, LADWP reinforced electric grid and water system reliability, enhanced coordination during wildfire events, and advanced investments to strengthen resilience amid increasing climate pressures. Quiñones brought steady leadership and engineering expertise to LADWP.
The House Subcommittee on Energy this week advanced five recently introduced bills aimed at boosting the physical and cyber security of the United States' electric grid and other energy infrastructure. The bills collectively aim to update Department of Energy (DOE) programs, enhance grid and pipeline protections, and prioritize cybersecurity for vulnerable sectors amid rising threats. One of the bills is H.R. 7258, named the Energy Emergency Leadership Act,
As Winter Storm Fern swept across the United States in late January 2026, bringing ice, snow and freezing temperatures, it left more than a million people without power, mostly in the Southeast.
From this remote landscape of light and sand, in the Ningxia Autonomous Region, a power line stretches across mountains, plateaus and valleys to reach Hengyang, in the industrial heart of Hunan Province in the south. Along more than 1,000 miles of cables and steel towers flows part of the electricity that keeps the country running: the ultra-high voltage (UHV) infrastructure that China is using to protect its grid from blackouts and redraw its energy map in the midst of its race toward ecological transition.
