Joe Biden: 'We have to know how woefully behind our energy infrastructure is'

When he campaigned for president in 2007, Joe Biden said one of his top priorities would be energy security. 

Now a private citizen, though some speculate a 2020 run is in his future, the former vice president made energy and innovation a topic of conversation during a Tuesday discussion with former Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz at the University of Delaware’s Mitchell Hall.

“We have to know how woefully behind our energy infrastructure is,” Biden said during his opening remarks.

The Tuesday event was a partnership between the Biden Institute and the Delaware Environmental Institute.

Biden and Moniz, who worked together in the Barack Obama administration, spent more than an hour talking about the state of energy and innovation in the United States and discussed a potential path forward for industries with changing futures.

Moniz, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2013-2017, is CEO of the Energy Futures Initiative and co-chairman of the board and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. During introductions, Biden credited Moniz for his role in brokering the Iran nuclear deal and assisting in the Paris climate agreement.

“Even though the president decided to walk away, the rest of the world is not walking away,” Biden said.

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