It has become even more crucial as a potential transit route for Europe-bound natural gas from energy-rich Azerbaijan and Central Asia, as well as from Iraq (and eventually Iran).
Many of those contracts promise to supply electricity below the cost of energy produced by natural-gas fired power plants.
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Unlike traditional "centralized" systems, distributed energy relies on small power-generating technologies like solar panels or ultra-efficient natural-gas turbines built near the point of energy consumption to supplement or displace grid-distributed electricity.
This President believes we need to embrace all forms of domestic energy production, including oil, including natural gas, including nuclear energy -- which, as you know, this administration has invested in for the first time in 30 years -- including renewables like wind and solar.
Clean Energy Fuels makes natural gas-filling equipment for buses and other large vehicles.
Secondly, when considering end-to-end efficiency, it is much less energy-intensive to heat water by direct use of natural gas on-site, rather than by using that natural gas to first make electricity that is used to heat water because of the large conversion losses at power plants.
From wind and solar, to waste and biomass to energy, fuel cells, co-generation, natural gas, and smart grid, speakers and attendees discussed a diverse portfolio of advanced energy technologies that are being developed and deployed in Ohio.
The country has an abundance of energy resources - substantial oil reserves and natural gas reserves second only to those of Russia.
Energy contracts of CME Group primarily consist of crude oil, natural gas, power and other energy-related exchange-traded contracts and over-the-counter contracts cleared through CME Group ClearPort.
Innovations like hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking, " have made it easier to extract oil and especially natural gas from energy-rich geological formations such as the Niobrara shale, which stretches from Wyoming to beneath the densely-populated Front Range of Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
Enterprises are being pressed to change over from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas and methane, and to be more energy-efficient by modernizing their plant equipment in the switch.
In some part of the country such as Texas, wind energy is now competitive with natural gas-fired power plants, the report said.
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The government has already twice increased the price of diesel and natural gas to some energy-intensive industries, though prices to motorists and domestic consumers remain the same.
Energy derived from natural gas and coal-fired power plants, for example, creates more than 10 times more hazardous waste than the same energy created by a solar panel, according to Mulvaney.
The U.S. is at last moving in that direction, with the Department of Energy in recent weeks approving the proposal by Cheniere Energy to turn its little-used liquified natural gas import terminal at Sabine Pass on the Louisiana coast into an export terminal.
Ms. Schapiro didn't vote because of stock she owns in natural-gas company Spectra Energy Corp.
The energy those nukes turn out is cheap, compared to the juice rival energy providers produce at coal-fired or natural-gas electric plants.
Even better, then, that on both cost and environmental grounds, neo-conventional energy technologies, especially of the natural gas variety, are showing remarkable trends.
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Michael Harris was a geologist in Rio de Janeiro for Devon Energy, a U.S.-based natural gas and oil producer, according to a company spokesman.
One example: Aubrey McClendon, Forbes 400 member and chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, the second-largest independent producer of natural gas in the country.
Brian Hunter, the 32-year-old Canadian energy trader, had made a fortune for Amaranth in 2005 when he bet that natural-gas futures would rise and then benefited from surging gas prices after Hurricane Katrina.
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that they discussed a proposal to create a state-owned energy company in Cyprus that would own natural gas fields open to Russian investors through a bond offering.
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Matt Simmons, the energy analyst who spotted America's falling natural-gas supplies in the late 1990s, told Dow Jones this month that he fears for the Saudis' ability to act as OPEC's swing producer indefinitely.
Extracting the bitumen from the clay and sand and upgrading it into crude oil--by breaking its big hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, less viscous ones--is an expensive, energy-intensive process that consumes 650 cubic feet of natural gas for every barrel.
Supporters of nuclear power say reactors provide reliable, zero-carbon-emission energy the country needs to avoid dependency on natural gas.
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Chesapeake Energy tacked on 6.3% after the natural-gas producer said it plans to further reduce dry-gas drilling activity by 50% and to curtail its gross gas production by about 8% in response to a drop in natural-gas prices.
We keep investing in wind and solar, clean coal technology, farmers and scientists harnessing new biofuels to power our cars and trucks, construction workers building homes and factories that are more energy efficient -- developing a hundred years' supply of natural gas. (Applause.) We can cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and support more than 600, 000 new jobs in natural gas alone.
Added demands from such operations will stretch Alberta's ability to provide enough natural gas--necessitating new sources of energy.
The same hindrances are lodged at other alternative-energy vehicles, such as those powered by hydrogen and natural gas.
Granted, the energy sector is highly diverse--utility companies, oil and natural gas businesses and ethanol producers are distant cousins at best.
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