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TrAnsporTATIon
79%
TRANSPORTATION ENERGY DEMAND
BY FUEL TYPE, 2012
Pipeline
Electricity
Fuel
.08%
CNG/LNG0
Natural
.2%
Gas
2.68%
E85
.04%
Petroleum
Products
97%
Source: Energy Information Administration AEO 2013
EnErgy EffICIEnCy
Since the 1970s, increasing the efficiency
of energy use has been a priority of national energy policy. While major gains
have been achieved over the last several
decades, state governments, PUCs, and
gas LDCs should consider how abundant, reasonably priced natural gas can
be used to improve total energy efficiency
and reduce overall emissions.
Policies to promote energy efficiency
should be underpinned by a holistic
approach that includes a full-fuel cycle
analysis. Using this approach, the
overall efficiency of our national energy
consumption can be greatly improved
through an approach that considers not
only where the energy is used on site,
but where the energy comes from-as
well as the losses that the energy encounters on its journey to the end user.
A key issue to avoid is bias against
the use of any fossil fuel, especially if
the overall efficiency profile is more
beneficial. Some parties are concerned
that any increased use of fossil fuels
will lead to greater emissions, while
assuming that electrical generation will
become increasingly benign through
a shift to renewable generation. Gas
LDCs need to educate policy makers on the green benefits of a shift
toward natural gas until cost-effective
technologies-other than dispatchable
gas-fired generation-are developed to
balance the intermittency of renewable
generation.
Gas LDCs can work with PUCs,
policy makers, and other stakeholders, to:
* Adopt full-fuel cycle analyses in all energy efficiency and savings comparisons
* Identify opportunities for natural gas
to increase overall energy-efficiency
in a cost-effective manner, in particular in view of the growing disparity
ENERGY USE PER DOLLAR OF REAL GDP
Total Energy
Consumption
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
110
100
90
80
Energy Use per
Dollar of GDP
70
Quadrillion Btu
On Road
60
50
2010
11%
2000
2%
1990
Rail
3%
Aviation
1980
Pipeline Fuel
5%
such as Clean Energy and Shell will bring
close to 300 LNG refueling stations along
the national Interstate system by the end
of 2015.
More work is needed to open up these
potential markets to natural gas. Assuring that natural gas fuel quality can meet
the strict, uniform standards required by
vehicle and engine manufacturers will be a
prerequisite for growth in this sector. Technology advancements in on-board storage
and home refueling could be game-changing, and greater research and development
investments are needed by the government
and by private actors alike.
Finally, federal and state policies need
to maintain a level playing field to allow
natural gas vehicles a chance to compete
fairly in the market place. Providing
fuel-neutral provisions to incentivize the
production of vehicles using all clean, domestic alternative fuels, including natural
gas, in federal fuel-efficiency and environmental standards should be an element in
our national energy policy.
MBtu per 2005 $ of GDP
Marine
Natural gas provides approximately
a third of the primary energy used to
power our nation's economy overall, yet
only about 0.2 percent of the energy
used to drive our transportation sector
comes from natural gas. Today, there are
more than 15 million natural gas vehicles
in use around the globe, yet less than
1 percent of these vehicles are on U.S.
roadways.
Natural gas has a potential role to
play in every segment of our transportation sector, including on-road use (light,
medium, and heavy duty), marine, rail,
and high-horsepower uses such as off-road
applications, including construction and
natural gas production.
One of the key barriers for natural gas
use in the transport sector is the lack of a
national refueling infrastructure. While
our nation has only about 1,200 CNG
stations today, the annualized growth rate
for these stations has been 11 percent
since 2009. Announced investments in
liquefied natural gas stations by companies
1970
TRANSPORTATION ENERGY DEMAND
BY SUB-SECTOR, 2012
Source: EIA
between retail natural gas and retail
electricity prices
* Work with builders, local governments, and other stakeholders to
encourage use of home appliances
with the most attractive lifecycle cost,
beyond up-front costs
* Revisit and, if necessary, update the
terms of cost recovery of decoupling if
mechanisms seem an impediment to
moving to a full-fuel cycle paradigm.
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American Gas - November 2013
Contents
President’s Message
Subject Index
Head Start: On Energy Education
Digest
Issues
Updates
By the Numbers
Need to Know
Places
The Wheels on the Bus...
California
Michigan
Michigan
New Jersey
Long Island
Fueling the Future
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz
A Tight Ship
Expanding the Reach of the Gas Infrastructure
Company Profiles
Jobs
Marketplace
Headway
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