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Southwest Gas Corp. officials said they are confident that natural gas has a bright future in Arizona, supported by a law passed last year to prevent local governments from imposing bans on natural gas in new construction. Arizona’s House Bill 2686, effective last August, prohibits local building permits from restricting natural gas. Lawmakers in Oklahoma,…

“The energy reform sought to create a sector that operated as a market with technical criteria and with long-term investor certainty, and that is being dismantled,” Guillermo Zúñiga, former Commissioner at the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) from 2013-2019, told NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index.  Zúñiga, currently an international attorney at the Earthjustice environmental nonprofit based…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker last week cited high costs in vetoing legislation that would have moved the state toward achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.  One of the major goals of the legislation was to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 and transition to battery, fuel cell and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. …

In the story Bakken Midstream Mulling Ethane-Natural Gas Power Plant, the company proposing to build the Williston Basin Energy Center was misstated. Bakken Midstream Natural Gas LLC is proposing to build the plant for the Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative. NGI regrets the error.

“With more of a push to decarbonize the U.S., combined with more demand from Mexico for natural gas in the short and mid-term, we are going to continue to see increased dependence on U.S. natural gas in Mexico,” Leonardo Beltrán, a seasoned expert in Mexico energy policy, told NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index.  “The change…

Increased domestic industrial energy use, coupled with strong and ongoing demand for U.S. exports, could more than offset a gradual rise in production and drive natural gas prices this year well above the level at which they finished a pandemic-plagued 2020, analysts and industry insiders say. Analysts at Raymond James and Associates Inc. estimated gas…

Nevada Climate Initiative (NCI) has begun work on the structure for its plan for a statewide climate action to create a more resilient, healthy and sustainable future. The state released its State Climate Strategy earlier this month, which is an integrated, economy-wide roadmap for Nevada. The strategy should help speed up the process of the…

Natural gas-fired electricity generation jumped across all but one U.S. region over the past five years, and the trend continued through November 2020, according to the latest U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Power Plant Operations Report. U.S. natural gas power plants boosted electricity generation by 31% in the Northeast, by 20% in the Central region,…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently granted a Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) team of scientists $1.2 million to build an integrated computational and experimental framework for manufacturing ultrahigh-temperature refractory alloys.  These refractory alloys would contribute to an increased operating temperature on top of higher efficiency in natural gas turbines.  The DOE’s Advanced Research…