Dash For Gas Research Articles

Will China’s “dash for gas” halt in the future?

The consumption of natural gas in China increased by only 5.7 percent in 2015, a sharp drop from the previous year. This has resulted in aggressive restrictions on production and resale of long-term contracts. The question is: What will the supply of and demand for natural gas look like in China in the future? We estimate China’s future natural gas demand based on unique panel data, and then investigate supply capacity through domestic production and international imports. Our analysis of supply and demand reveals that supply would be very likely to exceed demand in China in the future if there were no significant policy shocks. This is driven by the fact that the industrial sectors that consume natural gas the most grow much slower compared to earlier years. Possible policy shocks include price cut and encouraging the use of gas as a replacement for coal to reduce environmental woes. We also suggest that the plan for adding more supply capacity should base on a demand estimation that considers future economic growth, industrial structural shifts and environmental policy development.

Dash for Gas: Climate Change, Hegemony and the Scalar Politics of Fracking in the UK

AbstractThis paper investigates the political contestation over hydraulic fracturing of shale gas, or ‘fracking’, in the UK. Based on an analysis of four public inquiries, it shows how both proponents and opponents of fracking employed scaling to mobilize interests by connecting (or disconnecting) fracking to spatial and temporal scales. The analysis explains how a fossil fuel hegemony was reproduced by linking local and specific benefits to nationally or globally recognized interests such as employment, energy security and emission reductions. The paper contributes to recent debates on environmental political contestation by showing how scaling enables the linkage of competing interests by alternating between spatial (e.g. local vs. global) and temporal (e.g. short term vs. long term) horizons. The authors argue that scaling allows dominant actors to uphold contradictory positions on climate change, which contributes to explaining the current disastrous political climate impasse.

Energy modeling approach to the global energy-mineral nexus: A case of fuel cell vehicle

Hydrogen draw great attentions to become center of the Japanese energy policy after succeeding rapid expansion of renewable energy and dash for gas, after the Fukushima daiichi nuclear accident. This study estimates the metal requirement for hydrogen technologies by using a cost-minimizing energy model on the global energy-mineral nexus. The models are consisted from production of resources, land use and land use changes, inter-regional transportation, energy conversion (power, liquid fuels, gas), production of materials, final demand, wood products, disposal of used products, and materials recycling. Two energy and climate scenarios were developed to represent primarily economic efficiency and environmental performance, respectively, under climate policies with 2DC target, and without any constraints. Based on the future hydrogen consumption, metal requirements and cumulative production were estimated, to compare with production levels in 2015 and reserves. Candidates of hydrogen technologies are, fuel cells (for vehicle, stationary), storage tanks, and production, utilizing sectors in transport, power, and heat.

The future role of natural gas in the UK: A bridge to nowhere?

The UK has ambitious, statutory long-term climate targets that will require deep decarbonisation of its energy system. One key question facing policymakers is the role of natural gas both during the transition towards, and in the achievement of, a future low-carbon energy system. Here we assess a range of possible futures for the UK, and find that gas is unlikely to act as a cost-effective ‘bridge’ to a decarbonised UK energy system. There is also limited scope for gas in power generation after 2030 if the UK is to meet its emission reduction targets, in the absence of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Without CCS, a ‘second dash for gas’ while providing short-term gains in reducing emissions, is unlikely to be the most cost-effective way to reduce emissions, and could result in stranded assets and compromise the UK's decarbonisation ambitions. In such a case, gas use in 2050 is estimated at only 10% of its 2010 level. However, with significant CCS deployment by 2050, natural gas could remain at 50–60% of the 2010 level, primarily in the industrial (including hydrogen production) and power generation sectors.

The U.K.'s "Dash for Gas".

The evidence on public health regulation of the unconventional gas extraction (fracking) industry was examined using a rapid evidence assessment of fifteen case studies from multiple countries. They included scientific and academic papers, professional reports, government agency reports, industry and industry-funded reports, and a nongovernment organization report. Each case study review was structured to address strengths and weaknesses of the publication in relation to our research questions. Some case studies emphasized inherent industry short-, medium-, and long-term dangers to public health directly and through global climate change impacts. Other case studies argued that fracking could be conducted safely assuming industry best practice, "robust" regulation, and mitigation, but the evidence base for such statements proved generally sparse. U.K. regulators' own assessments on fracking regulation are also evaluated. The existing evidence points to the necessity of a precautionary approach to protect public health from unconventional gas extraction development.

The Dash for Gas

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the process of extracting reserves of natural gas and oil from shale formations deep underground. This process, initially met with public support in the United Kingdom, has since become a highly contentious issue primarily debated between government, industry, and anti-fracking advocacy groups. Through the employment of three levels of agenda-building as a theoretical lens of examination (object, attribute, and network connections), this study investigated the political discourse between these stakeholder groups and national news media in the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2014. In total, 1354 unique messages were coded, with 840 information subsidies and 514 news media content analyzed. To determine the short-, mid-, and long-term effects of agenda-building, a time-lag analysis was conducted. The results suggest solid support for all three levels of agenda-building. Our findings indicate that anti-fracking advocacy groups were more successful at influencing news media content across all three time periods, in addition to supporting the growing influence of digital information subsidies as an effective tool for agenda-building strategies. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

The Accelerating Dash for Gas

The Accelerating Dash for Gas

Dash for Gas, 21st-Century Style!

Since the price deregulation in natural gas was enacted in the 1990s, there has been roughly one “dash for gas” every decade. These dashes for gas have influenced the globalization of the gas industry while being uniquely North American and European phenomena. The first two involved increasing demands from the power sectors in Europe and the United States which were chasing what appeared to be dwindling supplies. The current dash for gas is fundamentally different and is driven by flush supplies in North America chasing multiple new markets. The nature of the current dash for gas has more potential to induce a globalized market for natural gas than did the previous episodes.

Responding to the Private Regulation of Dissent: Climate Change Action, Popular Justice and the Right to Protest

This analysis is a discussion on the 'No Dash for Gas' protests in the context of compromised rights of protest as a result of the use of civil law to protect the commercial interests of the energy sector. The use of law within protest movements is highlighted in terms of how climate change protest may respond to these changes in legal tactics both inside and outside of court in light of a recent 'climate change defense' in criminal proceedings.

Gloves Off in British Energy Battles

Last year, the British chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, announced that a "dash for gas" was the solution to British energy needs. In late October, twenty-one activists calling themselves "No Dash for Gas" scrambled up a power station to hold a sit-in three hundred feet up in the sky. The targeted plant, West Burton, a combined cycle gas turbine under construction in Nottinghamshire, is owned by the British energy provider EDF Energy (subsidiary of the French energy giant Électricité de France, the world's largest producer of energy). It is one of the first of twenty new gas-fired power stations planned to be built in the United Kingdom by 2030. At full capacity, it will emit approximately 4.5 million tons of CO2 annually, more than the annual emissions of Paraguay. Like many new gas stations, it will be exempt from British emissions regulations.

Responding to the Private Regulation of Dissent: Climate Change Action, Popular Justice and the Right to Protest

This analysis is a discussion on the 'No Dash for Gas' protests in the context of compromised rights of protest as a result of the use of civil law to protect the commercial interests of the energy sector. The use of law within protest movements is highlighted in terms of how climate change protest may respond to these changes in legal tactics both inside and outside of court in light of a recent 'climate change defense' in criminal proceedings.

New dash for gas?

Chemistry & IndustryVolume 76, Issue 4 p. 4-5 New dash for gas? First published: 10 April 2012 https://doi.org/10.1002/cind.7604_2.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume76, Issue4April 2012Pages 4-5 RelatedInformation

China's "Dash for Gas": Challenges and Potential Impacts on Global Markets

Two UK-based researchers examine the significant recent growth in China's demand for natural gas, a fuel not long ago considered of marginal importance but now viewed as critical for the country's future economic growth. Based on a range of databases as well as industry and media reports, the authors demonstrate how rapid demand growth since 2005 has transformed China from a minor, self-sufficient gas producer to a major buyer on international gas markets. They also analyze projections for future demand growth (25 years), showing China's demand for gas will grow faster that anywhere else in the world, and explore the potential for development of China's substantial domestic gas reserves to mitigate import demand over the short to medium term. The study concludes with an assessment of China's potential impact on global gas markets over short, intermediate, and long time horizons.

GAS AND POWER: Is Germany's nuclear phase‐out the start of a new dash for gas?

GAS AND POWER: Is Germany's nuclear phase‐out the start of a new dash for gas?

What next for gas? The role of innovation in unlocking new opportunities for natural gas

In the last fifteen years there have been significant swings in expectations about the role for gas in the global energy mix. Today the picture is clearer. Growing populations across the world require more energy to drive economic growth, but at the same time need to reduce pollution and deal with the potential of a more carbon-constrained world. In the coming decades then, the world will turn to natural gas as a secure, economic, and cleaner-burning energy source. In addition to these demand drivers, the emergence of natural gas as a fuel of choice has been facilitated by innovative applications of advanced technologies, better project management and new commercial strategies. Together these advances have unlocked previously inaccessible resources, enhanced environmental protection and created more viable business models. The next wave of innovation and technology deployment will provide further support for the ‘dash for gas’ and potentially offer some additional supply options to the world. Some of the more challenging approaches to gas development are already being deployed in Australia and this process is likely to continue. This, coupled with the proximity of Australian resources to Asian markets, should ensure a leading role for Australia’s energy sector through to mid-century and beyond. Realising that promise will require partnership, sound execution, continued applications of cutting-edge technologies, more innovation and an unwavering focus on operational excellence. No post-Conference video is available for this presentation.

When Systems are Overthrown: The 'Dash for Gas' in the British Electricity Supply Industry

When Systems are Overthrown: The 'Dash for Gas' in the British Electricity Supply Industry

When Systems are Overthrown

The privatization of the British electricity supply industry (ESI) in the late 1980s and early 1990s was associated with a transformation in electricity generation technology. In a sudden and unexpected `dash for gas', previously unused combined cycle gas turbine plant was adopted for all new large power stations. Gas turbine technology, politically and institutionally excluded from the industry before privatization, gained ascendancy due to the coincidence and interaction of ESI liberalization with lower fuel prices and greater availability, improved turbine performance, pollution abatement legislation, and the manifestation of institutional tensions accumulated under nationalization. An earlier paper found that the demise of established generation technology, particularly the British nuclear power programme, exposed the inadequacies of autonomistic and deterministic notions of technological change. The present paper considers the value of a more subtle framework - Hughes' sociotechnical systems model - for analysing the rise of gas turbines in the British ESI. The systems perspective enables the dash for gas to be understood, rather than as a result of technical and economic imperatives, or structural and regulatory reform, as a contingent and largely unplanned outcome of the interplay of previously excluded international forces with latent local interests, mediated by policymaking expediency. Liberalization swiftly led to the replacement of centralized system building with fragmented `postmodern' change.

GAS, COAL AND GAS FROM COAL: A STRATEGIC SOCIO-ECONOMIC APPRAISAL OF THE UK ENERGY POLICY

UK energy policy is based on non-renewable sources, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Until recently this was primarily coal, but during the 1990s the short term "dash for gas" has resulted in a dramatic shift in the fuel mix. With a focus on the electricity supply industry, the article seeks to provide a longer and wider strategic socio-economic appraisal of the gas–coal mix for the UK. It explores the relative merits of clean coal technology, producing gas from coal, including the specific project example of Kellingley, and concludes with an appraisal of the continuing barriers to its development.

Reassessing a proposed low-energy strategy for the UK

Predictions, as made in Leach et al. (A low-energy strategy for the United Kingdom. Science Reviews Ltd., Austria: International Institute for Environment and Development, 1979.) have been compared with actual values for subsequent years. Their disparities are discussed, together with the associated lessons. It would have been unreasonable to expect the 1979 predictive procedure to anticipate the “dash for gas”, but it can be realised in retrospect that greater emphasis should have been placed on the likely increasing concern (of successive governments) with environmental protection. In any strategy, the main mechanism (within a government's control) to achieve energy thrift is to raise the unit prices for (i) all fossil fuels and electricity derived from them and especially for (ii) polluting fuels for private cars and aircraft. These measures would simultaneously reduce the overall rate of environmental degradation. There should also be more introductory subsidies, provided by the state, for the implementation of all energy-thrift measures and equipment (e.g. combined heat-and-power plant), that satisfy the criterion of achieving a pay-back period of less than 7 years.

The Coal Industry's View

INTRODUCTION The role of coal in the primary energy mix in the UK has fallen dramatically since 1990, from 33 per cent in 1990 to only 14 per cent in 1996. The big winners have been oil and gas. Coal has largely been replaced by gas in the power generation market as a consequence of the dash for gas. Indeed many people fail to grasp the importance of the coal industry. In 1997 UK coal production amounted to 46 Million Tonnes with two thirds from deep mines with the remainder from opencast sources. During 1997 the new Labour Government recognised the importance of an energy policy based upon security, sustainability and diversity of supply and announced a number of reviews including the Energy Review of Fuel Sources for Power Generation and the Electricity Trading Review. I should like to set out the very strong case that can be made for coal in meeting those essential policy objectives.