Baker Policy Study: Natural Gas to Play Important Role in U.S. Energy Mix

摘要

Electric cars hold greater promise for reducing emissions and lowering U.S. oil imports than a national renewable portfolio standard, according to research conducted by Rice Univer- sity’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The Baker Institute researchers also foresee natural gas, reinforced by recent discoveries of vast reserves of shale gas, playing “a very im- portant role in the U.S. energy mix for decades to come.” These assessments are among several contained in a new major policy study the Baker Institute Energy Forum will release at a Sept. 27-28 conference titled “Energy Market Consequences of an Emerging U.S. Carbon Management Policy.” The study comprises several academic working pa- pers on a variety of topics, such as carbon pricing, the wind industry, global U.S. carbon and energy strategies, and re- newable energy R&D.