Natural gas has become the go-to fuel globally to lower CO2 emissions and backup wind and solar, power sources that are naturally intermittent. The best modeling agencies confirm that gas demand increases under any practical energy policy scenario No wonder: from 2010 to 2018, global gas use boomed nearly 25% to around 375 Bcf/d. That’s a daily consumption figure that is almost five times what the U.S. uses – easily the world’s largest market. And now, the U.S. Department of Energy just projected that global gas use will rise another 40-45% by 2050.
