Sentences with phrase «use of natural gas»

CO2 emissions from power generation are projected to decrease by as much as 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, based on the continued increased use of natural gas for power generation.

But the direct use of natural gas for heating, cooking and clothes drying is even cleaner.

We also pointed out how a rise in electricity generation from renewables this year has been accompanied by record - setting use of natural gas in the power sector.

The reason why chemical researchers are striving to make greater use of natural gas as a raw material for synthesis is primarily because it occurs in huge quantities.

Though focused on end uses of natural gas, the paper also shows how results are affected by highly uncertain leak rates from natural gas production and delivery.

Under these assumptions, continued use of natural gas would delay but not avoid unwanted climate outcomes.

What is viable is a movement more aggressively toward use of natural gas.

That just proves that human use of natural gas has nothing measurable to do with atmospheric methane levels.

However, the state's energy goals also call for increased use of natural gas.

And the transition toward greater use of natural gas has been particularly dramatic in a number of states.

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

China aims to increase use of natural gas from four to eight percent of overall needs, and renewable energy from 8 to 11 %.

EIA credits increased use of natural gas as a leading factor in falling carbon emissions from the power sector.

Environmentally, U.S. energy - related carbon dioxide emissions in 2015 were 12 percent below 2005 levels, mainly due to the increased use of natural gas by power generators.

T. Boone Pickens, the oil magnate and proponent of windfarms and use of natural gas vehicles, also happens to have used the collaborative divorce process to separate from his former spouse.

They made comparisons within the five sectors they studied — power plants, furnaces, exports for electricity generation overseas, buses and cars — and across sectors to see which use of natural gas pays the greatest dividend for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The UK achieved an unprecedented drop in carbon emissions in 2016 by making full use of natural gas over coal.

Oil accounts for 78.5 % of all US military energy usage (54 % of that is jet fuel); electricity is 11 %, direct use of natural gas comes in a bit under electricity.

The world's projected growing use of natural gas and the expectation that the United States will be a leading natural gas producer is important for our domestic production, economy and trading posture.

In 2014, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that the increased use of natural gas combined cycles in power generation has led to 40 percent less nitrogen oxide emissions and 44 percent less sulfur oxides emissions since 1997.

Atmospheric methane is leveling off, despite rising use of natural gas.

The Orange County environmental group opposes the plan in part because of the planned used of natural gas.

The DOE panel recommended «a thorough assessment of the greenhouse gas footprint for cradle - to - grave use of natural gas.»

Rice University researchers have determined the most climate - friendly use of natural gas is replacement of existing coal - fired power plants and fuel - oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses.

This research outcome, published in Nature Chemistry, paves the way for an efficient use of natural gases to synthesize important chemical products.

Roughly 40 percent of the oil produced from California's century - old fields relies on the steam technique — and it is the largest industrial use of natural gas in that state.

The key to sustainable use of natural gas is identifying and halting «super emitters» — valves or hatches that are stuck open, corroded holes in pipes or other major leaks — according to this study.

The Clean Power Plan will be Obama's legacy — a tiny short - term dent that at best encouraged widened use of natural gas.

Increased use of natural gas across the country is the main reason U.S. carbon emissions from power generation are at 25 - year lows.

Wider use of natural gas in electricity generation is a key reason.

* Note: As discussed in Breaking Energy's article, the project's use of natural gas remains within the de minimus requirement (2 % - 5 % of total fuel use) as defined by the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to be considered RPS - eligible delivered electricity.

LNG exports also generate benefits — environmental, with increased use of natural gas helping other nations lower energy - related carbon dioxide emissions as has occurred in the U.S., and security, by offering allies abroad supply options.

A new ICF report finds that total end - use cost savings of $ 100 billion could reach by 2040, or $ 655 per household, from the increased use of natural gas throughout the economy.

Indeed, increased domestic use of natural gas is the foundation of a market - based approach that has produced energy and economic growth and falling CO2 emissions — bucking the historic pattern of growth leading to higher emissions.

The United States is the global leader in refining and production of oil and natural gas, while also leading the world in reducing energy - related carbon dioxide emissions — thanks to increased use of natural gas developed with hydraulic fracturing.

The NAGF is a gathering of regional natural gas industry members — primarily focused on issues that affect the distribution and use of natural gas domestically and globally.

At the time, the Environmental Defense Fund was spreading allegations about how utilities in New England had engaged in the improper withholding use of natural gas pipeline capacity in order to drive up gas and / or power prices in the region.

By the late 1980s and early 1990s, an improved price and supply outlook for natural gas, and more efficient combined - cycle technology, encouraged greater use of natural gas for power generation (the restrictive provisions of the Fuel Use Act were repealed in 1987).

And while expanded use of natural gas can provided a valuable bridge toward non-polluting energy choices, according to many experts, those darned pipelines have found strident opposition, backyard by backyard, particularly in crowded regions of the country.

Just as greater use of natural gas for U.S. electricity generation has reduced our carbon emissions to levels not seen in more than two decades, U.S. natural gas can bring emissions reduction progress to other nations.

This is largely because of increased use of natural gas in power generation — a market choice that's based on the availability and affordability of natural gas, as well as the fact it is clean - burning.

Increasing our nation's use of natural gas over coal will reduce the carbon dioxide in our air by six million tons a year.»

by Mark Krebs, Spire Energy, and E&E Legal's Tom Tanton As Appearing in MasterResource «What Secretary Perry has yet to recognize is that the same hostile forces behind the «war against coal» are now focused on eliminating the direct use of natural gas....

Power sector CO2 emissions declined by 363 million metric tons between 2005 and 2013, due to a decline in coal's generation share and growing use of natural gas and renewables, but the CO2 emissions are projected to change only modestly from 2013 through 2040 in the 3 baseline cases used in this report.

The comparison of costs is shown in the figure, and illustrate that carbon can be reduced much more cheaply with easy operational changes like improving power plant heat rates or increased use of natural gas combined cycle than with most renewable technologies.

Last year EIA determined that increased use of natural gas reduced overall carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. by 229 million metric tons in 2014 compared to 2005 levels.