Sentences with phrase «when natural gas spot»
In 2012, when natural gas spot prices fell below $ 2 per thousand cubic feet, «I think people were thinking those prices were the new normal, that we were in a different world,» he says.
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The current downward trend in coal - fired generation began in 2007, when increased U.S. production of natural gas (particularly from shale) led to a sustained downward shift in natural gas spot prices and increased generation from natural gas - fired generators.
In 2012 a paper from Yale estimated that in 2010 alone, when the spot price of natural gas averaged $ 4.37 / MMBtu, lower natural gas prices were adding over $ 100 billion a year to the US economy.
Natural gas produces about half the carbon emissions of coal power, so you can imagine how excited clean energy supporters were when it took the top spot.