If production continues as planned,
over the next couple of decades natural gas could supplant coal as the leading domestic fossil fuel, serving as a cleaner way to heat our homes and fire our electric plants.
Not exact matches
More than 33 gigawatts
of coal - fired electricity generation will be retired
over the
next couple decades, EIA said, pushing up demand for
natural gas.
That's how Ed Davey, the United Kingdom's Energy and Climate Minister, is describing the climate impacts
of natural gas from shale formations: This report shows that the continued use
of gas is perfectly consistent with our carbon budgets
over the
next couple of decades.
We're also learning that
natural variability is really important when we're looking
over time scales
of anywhere from the
next year or two to even a
couple of decades in the future.