It wants to use a lot more gas to generate electricity and to fuel its expanding fleet of cars.
China's energy companies have been aggressive in their dealings abroad to secure access to cleaner-burning natural gas to generate electricity.
Although the amount of gas used to generate electricity rose 82% between 1997 and 2010, increasing efficiency in appliances that use natural gas has led to declining consumption of gas per customer over time.
But, like the bigger Karma (and the even larger Surf), there's an on-board motor that burns gas to generate more electricity to extend that range -- but sadly nobody's saying by how far.
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Finally, the substitution of natural gas for coal to generate electricity has reduced carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. to their lowest level in 20 years.
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Using gas instead of grubbier coal to generate electricity has helped to trim emissions while restraining power prices.
In addition to developing the new fields, it wants to build five new refineries, to generate more electricity and to build a network of gas pipelines in Brazil.
Oil and gas companies use practically the same turbines to generate electricity or to provide mechanical drive for compressors and pumps.
That puts the gas under sufficient pressure to spin a turbine and thus generate electricity.
It develops anaerobic digesters that convert organic waste into biogas used to generate electricity, heat, natural gas and motor vehicle fuel (CNG). quasar already operates eight facilities in Ohio, and several more are in process in the Buckeye State and elsewhere.
Egyptian natural-gas supplies generate 20% to 25% of Israel's electricity needs.
Natural gas has been so cheap that utilities have turned to it to generate electricity, rather than contemplate building multibillion-dollar reactors.
"There will be a huge incentive for utilities that generate electricity from coal to convert to natural gas, " said ranking Republican member James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin.
No case can be made for gas taking over and driving coal out of the markets for fuel to generate electricity.
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She said that gas and electricity companies should be forced to sell the energy they generate into a pool, in order to open up the market and ensure fairer consumer prices.
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He also predicts that Petrobras will end up flaring much of the gas that rushes out with the oil, rather than spending lots of money to liquefy it to generate electricity.
The growing need for cheap fuel with which to generate electricity to feed the country's economic boom is stoking demand for oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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