ms. kilmer? >> i agree with my fellow on -- panelists on the shared responsibility. i would also like to emphasize to the subcommittee the importance of communications during crisis periods. my experience has been that sometimes it's not the length of the outage but simply knowing how long it's going to be or what expectation is. it can help both residential consumers as well as townships and towns understand how they need to plan. i'd also like to add one thing that we've seen in our rural area, especially since hurricane sandy. that is a focus on individual preparedness. i'm seeing our local county management agencies doing a great job in trying to educate the public on being prepared. we try to do the same thing. we are in a rural area, we're subject to many weather events, so i think our consumers are relatively prepared. i'm not suggesting we can rely on that but that is an element in all of that. >> the chair recognizes ranking member carson. >> thank you, chairman barleta. ms. kilmer you mentioned the claverack is not connect to the bulk power services but you

ms. kilmer, you mentioned that copyright rural is not connected to the bulk power system but you receive services from the lack. what does it mean for cooperative in the event of a nationwide cyber attack on the grid? >> in the event that was a cyber attack that took down the grid we would be affected by that. the transmission system was perfected empower was disrupted to a substation. would also be out of power. >> mr. spence or whoever. it was a newspaper article yesterday that indicated that the fbi and department of homeland security have been warning that our industry over the last month about a potential cyber attack. what role as electricity information sharing and analysis center, what role might they play and distribute this kind of information? >> thank you, congressman. that is exactly really what the information sharing and analysis center does. in fact, i'm not aware of that particular one. we do dozens of these a day. we get information posted industry. we have thousand participants and industry who received those notices every day. >> i yield back, mr. chairman. thank you.

ms. kilmer? >> i agree with my fellow panelist on the shared responsibility. i would also like to emphasize to the subcommittee the importance of communications during crisis periods. my experience has been sometimes it's not the length of the outable but simply knowing how long it's going to be or what the expectation is. it can help both residential consumers as well as townships and towns to understand how they need to plan. i'd also like to add one thing that we've seen in our rural area, especially since hurricane sandy, and that is a focus on individual preparedness. i'm seeing our local county emergency management agencies doing a great job in trying to educate the public on being prepared. we try to do the same thing. of course we are in a rural area. we're subject to many weather events, so i think our consumers are relatively prepared. again, i'm not suggesting we can rely on that, but i think that is an element in all of this. thank you. >> the chair recognizes ranking member carson. >> thank you, chairman barletta. ms. kilmer, you mentioned that th

ms. kilmer? >> i agree with my fellow panelists and the shared responsibility. i would also like to emphasize to the subcommittee the importance of communications during crisis periods. my experience has been that sometimes it's not the length of the outage but simply knowing how long it's going to be or what expectation is. it can help both residential consumers as well as townships and towns understand how they need to plan. i'd also like to add one thing that we've seen in our rural area, especially since hurricane sandy. and that is a focus on individual preparedness. i'm seeing our local county management agencies doing a great job in trying to educate the public on being prepared. we try to do the same thing. we are in a rural area, we're subject to many weather events, so i think our consumers are relatively prepared. i'm not suggesting we can rely on that, but that is an element in all of that. >> the chair recognizes ranking member carson. >> thank you, chairman barleta. ms. kilmer you mentioned the claverack is not connect to the bulk power services bu

ms. kilmer, you mentioned that claverack is not elected to the bulk power system but you receive services from -- what does that mean for your cooperative in the event of nationwide cyber attacks on the grid? >> in the event that was a cyber attack that took down the grid we would be effected by that. the transmission system was affected empower was disrupted to our substations, we would also be out of power. >> mr. spence or, or whoever, there was a newspaper article yesterday that indicated that the fbi and the department of homeland security have been warning the power industry over the last month about a potential cyber attack. what role as the electricity information sharing and analysis center, what role might deploy industry-leading this kind of information? >> thank you, congressman. that is exactly really want the information sharing analysis center does. in fact not aware of that particular one because we do dozens of these today. we get information, posted industry, have several thousand participants in industry who receive those notices every day. >> i yield back, mr. chairman