As the natural gas landscape continues to be transformed by booming shale production and renewables emerge on a parallel path, gas industry stakeholders are increasingly focused on the concept of a “smarter,” more flexible gas delivery system along the lines of the electric industry smart grid. Eventually the two need to coalesce, according to a Gas Technology Institute (GTI) technical expert focused on the subject.
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Analyst Predicts Growing Gas, Electric Grid Interdependence
As the natural gas landscape continues to be transformed and renewables emerge on a parallel path, gas industry stakeholders are increasingly focused on the concept of a “smarter,” more flexible gas delivery system along the lines of the electric industry smart grid. Eventually the two need to coalesce, according to a Gas Technology Institute (GTI) technical expert focused on the subject.
Experts Review Natural Gas Potential, Possible Global Market
If natural gas evolves over time into a global market, it is not likely to parallel the oil market with volatile high prices enabled by cartels and inflexible demand, since neither of those factors are likely to develop in the natural gas industry, according to one of the authors of a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study (see NGI, June 13).
Experts Review Natural Gas Potential, Possible Global Market
If natural gas evolves over time into a global market, it is not likely to parallel the oil market with volatile high prices enabled by cartels and inflexible demand, since neither of those factors are likely to develop in the natural gas industry, according to one of the authors of a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study (see Daily GPI, June 13).
Investigations Continue Into San Bruno Pipe Explosion
Federal and state authorities last week turned up the heat in parallel but separate investigations and reviews of the Sept. 9 San Bruno natural gas transmission pipeline explosion and fire, and the utility in the middle, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E), moved ahead with stepped up pipeline safety checks and operating/maintenance plans.