Utilities' Switch To Natural Gas Due To Low Prices Prompts Key Concerns

摘要

Key consulting firms are revising their analyses of EPA power sector rules to account for falling natural gas prices they say will boost the number of utilities that shutter coal-fired plants and transition to gas due to the cost of the rules, prompting concerns about the need for increased hydraulic fracturing, or tracking, to meet higher gas demand and whether existing infrastructure can handle a large switch to gas.