Opportunities for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Emerging Natural Gas Direct-Use Technologies
The American Gas Foundation’s study on emerging natural gas direct use technologies demonstrates the role that high-efficiency natural gas appliances play in reducing emissions while maintaining affordability and reliability for homeowners and businesses.
Energy Infrastructure and the Defense Industrial Base
This CSIS brief examines whether U.S. energy infrastructure can reliably support the defense industrial base during periods of mobilization or war, highlighting vulnerabilities in electricity and natural gas supply for critical manufacturing sectors such as steel, aluminum, semiconductors, and titanium. It argues for treating key industrial nodes as defense‑critical energy assets and recommends targeted policy, […]
Renewable Natural Gas Supply Assessment
This study updates and expands on the 2019 AGF assessment of renewable natural gas (RNG), which is derived from biomass or other renewable resources and is a pipeline-quality gas that is fully interchangeable with conventional natural gas. The study incorporates a revised assessment of supply potential, recent advancements in technology, and shifts in policy landscapes. […]
The Growing Imperative for Natural Gas Energy Efficiency
Energy utilities have taken on multiple new mandates in recent years: reducing environmental impact; enhancing safety, reliability, and resilience against physical climate threats such as flooding, storms, and wildfires; and making energy affordable and accessible for all consumers. Making the most of every unit of energy produced, transported, and delivered—in other words, energy efficiency—typically emerges […]
Strategic Equilibrium: The United States’ Manufacturing Resurgence and the Role of Natural Gas in a Carbon-Competitive World
Introduction A variety of forces are promoting reindustrialization of the United States. Concerned about the fragility of long supply chains, some firms are reinvesting in U.S. production. They are enabled by government support ranging from tax subsidies for capital investment to active support for strategic industries that will keep the United States at the technological […]
Regulatory Pathways for Advancing Low-Carbon Gas Resources
Concentric was engaged by the American Gas Foundation (“AGF”) to assess enabling policies that could be used to establish regulatory frameworks for incentivizing the production and use of low-carbon gas resources at scale to achieve environmental, waste management, economic development, and other objectives. The study also examines the impact of such policies on the gas […]
Enhancing and Maintaining Energy System Resilience
Resilience is an inherent and crucial component of a dependable energy system obtained through diverse and redundant energy sources. Gas system resiliency and the ability to meet seasonal and peak demands represent important elements that must be considered when designing energy systems and a low-carbon future. Recent weather events have shown the value and necessity […]
Building a Resilient Energy Future
A resilient energy system is vital to every critical function and sector of the US economy and to the communities that depend upon its services. Resilience is defined as a system’s ability to prevent, withstand, adapt to, and quickly recover from a high-impact, low-likelihood event such as a major disruption in a transmission pipeline. In […]
Renewable Sources of Natural Gas
Renewable natural gas (RNG) is derived from biomass or other renewable resources, and is a pipeline-quality gas that is fully interchangeable with conventional natural gas. The American Gas Association uses the following definition for RNG: Pipeline compatible gaseous fuel derived from biogenic or other renewable sources that has lower lifecycle carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions […]
Opportunities For Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Emerging Natural Gas Direct-use Technologies
This study demonstrates how widespread adoption of emerging natural gas direct-use technologies can contribute significantly to achieving public goals of deep reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. residential sector, with much lower costs than other options under consideration. It’s low hanging fruit that should be a core element considered for any responsible […]
Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel
Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel: Models for Developing Fueling Infrastructure is written to enable local distribution companies (LDCs), and other stakeholders, to better understand the commercial and regulatory considerations involved in entering the NGV refueling market. The study outlines a variety of models that may be employed; recognizing that approaches to this market will […]
Multi-Family Buildings
The study conducted by ICF examines the policy, regulatory, economic, and knowledge barriers that may unintentionally discourage bringing natural gas service to multifamily dwellings; analyzes the extent of efficiency, emissions, and cost benefits that could result from increasing natural gas use in multi-family dwellings: and includes an overview of utility-led initiatives as examples of successful […]
Natural Gas Pipeline Safety and Reliability
This study describes coordinated efforts between these groups-the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation that currently administers the federal pipeline safety program, the various state authorities that participate in that program, and the natural gas industry-that together provide for the safe and reliable transportation of natural […]
Fueling the Future with Natural Gas
The U.S. Natural Gas Market – Outlook and Options for the Future The American Gas Foundation and IHS CERA have released a new study titled, “Fueling the Future with Natural Gas: Bringing it Home”. The study is the successor to the original 2001 “Fueling the Future” study and highlights the many domestic expansion and growth opportunities natural gas provides to all sectors […]
Gas Distribution Infrastructure
In April of 2011, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood released a call to action regarding repair and replacement activities for existing natural gas distribution infrastructure. This report provides a context for policy discussions surrounding cost recovery for these efforts. It discusses how innovative cost recovery mechanisms can serve the public interest in the short and […]
The Potential for Renewable Gas
This report provides an assessment of the national technical potential of Renewable Gas to contribute to enhancing energy security, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, fostering a cleaner environment, and creating jobs. Renewable gas is the term used to describe pipeline-quality biomethane produced from biomass. It is carbon neutral, extremely versatile, and fully compatible with the U.S. […]
Task Force on Ensuring Stable Natural Gas Markets
The American Gas Association and the American Gas Foundation participated in the release of the report which was issued by Bipartisan Policy Center and the American Clean Skies Foundation. The report points to the potential for increased domestic natural gas price stability based on the growing availability of gas from shale formations, a diverse portfolio of contracting options and expanding […]
Natural Gas in a Smart Energy Future
Executive SummaryThe white presents a compelling vision of how natural gas can provide the key to a smarkt energy future through its efficient, safe, and reliable delivery and use as an abundant, domestic, affordable, low-carbon energy source for all segment of the economy. The white paper also anticipates integrating the natural gas infrastructure with an […]
Natural Gas End Use
The report outlines how new innovations in end use technologies can ensure that natural gas will be a vital and integral part of America’s low carbon future. By capitalizing on research, development and demonstration (RD&D) opportunities for natural gas end uses in the residential, commercial, industrial and transportation sectors, the natural gas industry can meet […]
Regulatory Policy of Return on Equity
The report examines the current processes utilized by the state public utility commissions to establish allowed returns on equity (ROE) for natural gas utilities in an effort to determine if ROEs being approved are adequate and sufficient to address U.S. distribution infrastructure needs. The continued success of the utility sector to deliver natural gas safely […]
Ability of the United States to Compete in the Global LNG Marketplace
This report analyzes the adequacy of the world’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) producing capacity to meet the needs of the United States (U.S.) natural gas industry and to assess the current and likely future competitiveness of the U.S. in the global market place over the next decade. The overall goals of this study include: 1) […]
Direct Use of Natural Gas
The analysis summarized in this report examined the impact of the increased direct use of natural gas for Residential & Commercial (“R&C”) end uses. End uses considered include space heating, water heating, cooking, and clothes drying. The study analyzes the effect of the increased direct use of natural gas on expected use of gas for […]
Research and Development in Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution
The purpose of the study is to determine the current and projected R&D budgets of government agencies, the pipeline industry, manufacturers, and research consortiums; the focus of their funded research, and the prudent and correct levels of investment and research for the future for the natural gas transmission and distribution pipeline sectors. The study will […]
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 and Its Impact on the U.S. Natural Gas Supply/Demand Imbalance
The purpose of this report, “The Energy Policy Act of 2005 and Its Impact on the U.S. Natural Gas Supply/Demand Imbalance,” is twofold. First, the report revisits the findings of a prior 2005 AGF study, “Natural Gas Outlook to 2020”, in light of recent market conditions. Second, and very importantly, the report performs a “gap […]
Public Policy and Real Energy Efficiency
In an effort to assess the effects of Federal energy efficiency statutes, programs, and policies on energy consumption and the environment, this latest American Gas Foundation (AGF) study reviews the treatment of energy efficiency in current and proposed energy policies and analyzes the reasonableness of just using energy cost (amount paid by the consumer for […]
Safety Performance and Integrity of the Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure
The AGF study, Safety Performance and Integrity of the Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure, examines the safety performance of distribution pipelines and documented the causes of “serious incidents” – those involving injury or fatality – on the gas distribution system between 1990 and 2002. The study reveals a 40 percent downward trend in serious incidents in […]
Natural Gas Outlook to 2020
Natural Gas Outlook to 2020 analyzes the effects of three alternate public policy scenarios on the U.S. natural gas market. Each scenario includes five key variables: natural gas production from the lower-48 states, construction of a pipeline to transport natural gas from Alaska to the lower-48 states, imports of Canadian natural gas, imports of liquefied […]
Natural Gas and Energy Volatility
The report, Natural Gas and Energy Price Volatility has been prepared by the American Gas Foundation. This report was completed in October 2003 and released in November 2003. The report, broken out into chapters, is attached below in .pdf format.
Meeting the Gas Supply Challenge of the Next 20 Years — Lower 48 and Canada Gas Sources
The natural gas industry is presented with significant opportunities, but these opportunities are accompanied by significant challenges. This study examines whether traditional sources of natural gas supply from the lower-48 and Canada could grow over the 20 year period starting in 2002 without sustained upward pressures on gas prices that would reduce the attractiveness of […]
Meeting the Gas Supply Challenge of the Next 20 Years — Non-Traditional Gas Sources
The natural gas industry is presented with significant opportunities, but these opportunities are accompanied by significant challenges. This study examines the role non-traditional gas sources would play to supplement traditional sources of supply from lower-48 and Canada to support demand growth over the 20 year period starting in 2002 without sustained upward pressures on gas […]
