Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was in Park City, Utah on Monday at the annual meeting of the Western Governors Association where he participated in a discussion panel entitled “Tapping the West’s Renewable Energy Potential. Secretary Salazar was joined by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff to provide perspectives on developing large amounts of clean energy in the West and to announce several Obama Administration initiatives to advance the development of a smarter electric grid and more reliable transmission system, protect critical wildlife corridors and habitats, promote the development of renewable energy sources, and lay the groundwork to integrate these energy sources onto the national electricity grid.