Natural Gas: Fuel of the Decade and Bridge to the Millennium

Abstract

Despite a secure supply, economic advantages and environmental benefit, North American energy use has not significantly shifted from the traditional use of petroleum, coal and nuclear fuels. Electrical generation is a case in point where combustion turbines and their combined cycle variants are superior to the coal and nuclear fuelled equivalents. The reasons for natural gas not having a greater market share include an absence of confidence in the adequacy of the supply and an affordable cost.