Shaped

In a state whose political and economic history has been shaped by water more than any other resource, California Public Utilities Commission member Dian Grueneich last week used her power as the regulatory panel’s assigned commissioner on the issue to order the state’s four major private-sector energy utilities to develop one-year pilot programs for stepping up water conservation aimed at cutting the large energy volumes used to produce, transport and treat water.

In a state whose political and economic history has been shaped by water more than any other resource, California Public Utilities Commission member Dian Grueneich Monday used her power as the regulatory panel’s assigned commissioner on the issue to order the state’s four major private-sector energy utilities to develop one-year pilot programs for stepping up water conservation aimed at cutting the large energy volumes used to produce, transport and treat water.

Shaped by the continued rapid growth of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the natural gas sector is poised for “tremendous” growth over the next 20 years, and sometime between 2020 and 2030 it will overtake oil as the world’s preferred fuel, the CEO of Shell Gas and Power said last week.

Shaped by the continued rapid growth of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the natural gas sector is poised for “tremendous” growth over the next 20 years, and sometime between 2020 and 2030 it will overtake oil as the world’s preferred fuel, the CEO of Shell Gas and Power said Wednesday.