Environmental Capital – WSJ.com : Natural Gas Woes: If You Don’t Build It, They Won’t Come
The U.S. is moving inexorably toward using more natural gas to fire its power plants—thanks to an increasingly tough financing climate for coal, imminent climate legislation that will put a pricetag on dirtier fuel sources, trouble jump-starting the nuclear industry, and difficulties making renewable energy more than a marginal contributor to the electricity mix. Natural gas is cleaner than coal, easing some environmental concerns, and reliable, making it suitable for baseload power.
But that’s what everybody else is concluding, as well. China’s appetite—and willingness to sign pricey, long-term deals—just underscores how the scramble for natural gas is only going to intensify
En ondertussen heeft de Nederlandse energiesector forse plannen voor kolen. Vooruitziende blik? Of blijven er van de vijf aangekondigde centrales maar een of twee over ter vervanging van centrales die het einde van hun levensduur bereiken?
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