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Record Power Burn Expected This Summer as Coal Retirements and Data Centers Drive Gas Demand

By Sonal C. Patel, PowerMag.com

U.S. natural gas supply is expected to reach a record 117 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) this summer, including 111.7 Bcf/d of dry gas production, but growing demand from liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, data center load, industrial activity, and power generation is absorbing much of that growth, leaving less gas available for storage refill and a thinner cushion heading into next winter, according to the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA). Click Here to Keep Reading…