Private companies are planning to build more than 30 other plants, capable of producing as much as 200 million cubic meters of natural gas each year — far exceeding China's
current natural gas demand.
Not exact matches
On the
demand side of Russia's Asia
gas pivot, China has plans to increase the role of
natural gas to 10 per cent of primary energy consumption by 2020, or 360 bcm (about half the US's
current gas consumption).
For instance, the amount of
natural gas available to the United States may equal 10 years of
current demand... but with a few advances it might equal 1,000 years.
The shale
gas in recent exploration in the United States, that could meet the domestic
demand of the country for
natural gas at
current levels of consumption for over 100 years, is extremely negative for the environment because it generates half the carbon emissions from coal, and pollutes the sheets underground aquifers.
A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably
natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity
demand], at least based on
current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.
Links below have
current and historical data, facts, and statistics on California's
natural gas supply and
demand.
The remaining
natural gas resources can supply over 200 years of
natural gas at
current demand levels.
«Most U.S.
natural gas basins do not generate sufficient returns to justify drilling in today's weak price environment, suggesting that the
current growth pace is not sustainable in a market that is likely to see little near - term
demand growth,» investment bank Credit Suisse said in a report earlier this year.
Emissions from the
current approach of using
natural gas to firm the power and «follow the load» (matching fluctuating
demand with supply) could, on its own, exceed the emission target if California elects to rely predominantly on renewable energy.