As it fell, the utility would need to switch to more gas and retire coal.
If demand rose, more gas could be pulled out of the sea to meet it.
Of course, it would also help Kinder Morgan move a great deal more gas.
But gas could play a bigger role: there is a third more gas-powered than coal-fired capacity available.
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Now germans have to pay a higher price next year and have to import more gas from russia.
Shell raised output during the year, with the company selling more gas than oil for the first time.
Nguema says he may persuade British Gas to renegotiate the price in return for getting access to more gas.
British Gas has reported a rise in profits for 2012 after colder weather led to people using more gas.
It wants to use a lot more gas to generate electricity and to fuel its expanding fleet of cars.
And Britons are discovering that more capacity does not necessarily mean more gas.
More and more gas stations nationwide are installing CNG pumps as natural gas vehicles rapidly become the alternative fuel of choice.
Vehicles powered by natural gas save more gas dollars and crude oil imports than government-dictated plans for all-electric and hybrid vehicles.
Since higher vehicle speeds use more gas, keeping cars under the speed limit is good for wallets, along with being safer.
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Of course, the fly in the natural gas ointment is fracking, the hydraulic fracturing of underground rock to extract more gas and oil.
Even though it lets them make cars that guzzle more gas, they say they support it for the sake of reducing Americans' gas consumption.
Gas is the logical and cleanest and safest solution and we would expect Japan, Italy, and Germany to build more gas vs increase emphasis on renewable.
Instead of developing those fields in the northern state of Coahuila, Pemex will instead focus on oil output, and the Mexican state power utility will import more gas.
Some argue that more gas means more opportunities for tensions.
Mr. DAN BECKER (Director, Global Warming Project, Sierra Club): The auto companies by merely producing the vehicle qualify for a loophole that allows them to produce more gas guzzlers.
However, since Brazil switched on more gas-fired thermal plants in October, to cope with growing demand and ease the pressure on the hydroelectric power system, costs have increased significantly.
And indeed Iran does have 10 percent of the world's known oil reserves and more gas than any other country, but Russia--it exports about 2.5 million barrels of oil a day.
For a while, it looked as if the whole continent would be paved to over for strip malls stretching into infinity until there is was no more horizon or no more gas.
By entertaining the prospect of a gas cartel, Mr Putin hopes to give a prod to those states wavering over whether to commit to buying more gas from Russia in the future.
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"Some countries on mainland Europe have more gas storage capacity than the UK but they don't have the benefit of North Sea supply and our extensive range of import infrastructure, " the spokeswoman said.
For example, running the same distance now uses less energy because your legs are carrying less of you: an over-sized SUV uses lots more gas than a sedan (and please excuse the metaphor).
With 40% of Britain's power already coming from gas plants, that is causing worries about over-reliance on a single fuel, particularly since dwindling North Sea stocks will force Britain to import more gas from overseas.
In fact, gas is so plentiful in the U.S. right now that companies like Cheniere Energy have gotten the green light to start exporting it. (See: To Import Less Oil, U.S. Must Export More Gas).
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