Electric Vehicles May Reduce Oil Imports While Stabilizing Grid

摘要

One of the signal aspects of the US energy market is its nearly complete division into two separate and discrete components, complete with separate investments, ownership, regulations, and fuels. 1. Stationary energy markets—including uses of energy in residential and commercial buildings, private industries and manufacturing, and electricity generation. In the United States, this market is served by all known forms of energy—gas, coal, wind, nuclear, solar, hydro, geothermal, and biomass—but generally not oil and petroleum products. As exceptions, natural gas liquids (NGLs) are used as chemical and petrochemical industry feedstocks, and minor volumes of home heating oil are used in New England and other places that are inaccessible to the nation's 2-million-mile natural gas pipeline and distribution network.