Electrics May Demand Less than Thought

✍ Scribed by Willett, Robert E.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Weight: 214 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0743-5665
• DOI: 10.1002/gas.3410100605

✦ Synopsis

he increased demand for gas by the electric utilities (Figure I ) and nonutility generators, wbich has been held by many to be tbegreatestsourceof demandgnnutb in the next ten years, may not really be that much at all. Gmwtb in gas use is no greater tban in other sectors according to Michael I. Gemran, senior vice president of the American Gas Association, of Arlington, Virginia, who is a respected economist.

Utilities Flat in 1994

NC: Wbat do you see nextyear, as far as gtrnvtbfimn tbe electric-generation indushy? ctt.nratc We see relatively flat electricgeneration load, maybe down a smidgen from end-of-year '93.

. . . fair amount of vulnerability in that market to reduced oil prices.