The UK government says up to 26GW of new gas generating capacity could be required by 2030.
China is rapidly expanding its coal and natural gas generating capacity and will accelerate the process if oil prices remain high, Littell says.
Calpine has agreed to let him build a pilot greenhouse next to one of its natural-gas-powered generating plants probably the one in Dighton, Massachusetts.
The report found the amount of gas produced by generating electricity had dropped by 75% since the cable link with France, via Jersey, allowed energy imports from 2001.
In that role he oversaw the privatisation of Britain's electricity industry as energy minister in the Conservative government and approved Enron's bid for permission to build one of the first gas-fired electric generating plants in Britain.
Why not simply convert coal-fired electricity-generating plants to natural gas?
One plus is that, apart from the possibly dirty business of generating it, the gas is the cleanest fuel on the planet, combining with oxygen to create H2O, pure water vapor.
Generating electricity from natural gas is relatively clean.
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If TXU has to call into service its "mothballed" natural gas plants, or if new generating capacity in the state isn't enough to meet demand--causing prices to skyrocket--those additional facilities would have mattered quite a bit.
The report on security of gas supply points out that share of generating capacity is on the way up, from 40% to 60%.
Some three-quarters of all new electricity-generating capacity in America now uses gas.
The Energy Group owned Eastern, with 3.1 million gas and electric customers and 6, 700 megawatts of generating capacity, as well as Peabody Coal, the world's largest private coal producer.
But Priory knew that natural gas would become the fuel of choice for virtually all new generating plants.
Big mistake No. 1: Under the 1996 deregulation measure, investor-owned utilities such as Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric were required to sell most of their power generating plants to other private companies, and to become buyers of wholesale electric power.
Just as with oil, gas and hydroelectric, some places are just better than others for generating different types of power.
This saving is more than paid for by the value of the saved generating capacity, so the net cost of saving the gas itself is less than zero.
Cheap US gas is already driving down the price of the biggest substitute for generating electricity, coal, freeing it up for export to Europe, where it is displacing Europe's relatively highly-priced gas.
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.
Duke Energy has approximately 35, 000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Carolinas and the Midwest as well as natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky.
Accessing global resources such as minerals, oil, or gas creates supporting jobs domestically which help to supply and administer these operations, generating additional wealth here at home.
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In the first half of this year, 165 new power generators were added in 33 states, but among the 10 states with the bulk of new generating capacity, "most of the new capacity uses natural gas or renewable energy, " the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported in July.
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Gas has become so cheap that it can be substituted for coal as an electricity-generating fuel.
Fuels would be taxed according to their CO2-generating potential (ie, coal more than oil, and oil more than gas) rather than the miscellaneous system of duties to which they are now subjected.
Over the past half of a decade or so, the cost of generating electricity has plunged as the result of sluggish economic growth and a glut of dirt cheap natural gas.
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