Experts Say Gas Will Have to Compete With Coal, Nuclear in Asia

摘要

A panel of experts at an industry gathering in Singapore has played down talk of the growing dominance of gas in the Asian energy mix, saying nuclear and coal will stay ahead. As countries across the globe rethink their attitudes toward nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan, energy economist Ferdinand E. Banks from Sweden's Uppsala University warned that electricity prices would become "destructively" high if nuclear were phased out.