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Natural Gas

Natural Gas is a major source of electricity generation through the use of cogeneration, gas turbines and steam turbines. Oil & Gas is also suitable for combined use in conjunction with renewable energy sources such as wind or solar [32] and for alimenting peak power stations operate in tandem with hydroelectric plants. Most grid peak power plants and some off-grid engine-generators use natural gas. Very high efficiency can be achieved by a combination of gas turbines with a steam turbine in combined cycle mode. Natural gas burns more clean than other hydrocarbon fuels, such as oil and coal, and produces less carbon dioxide per unit of energy released. For an equivalent amount of heat, burning natural gas produces about 30 percent less carbon dioxide than burning petroleum and about 45% less than burning coal. Crude Oil coal-fired electric power generation emits about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide for every megawatt hour generated, which is almost the carbon dioxide released by a natural gas-powered electric plant per megawatt hour generated double. Because of this higher carbon efficiency of natural gas-generation, as the fuel mixture into the United States to reduce coal and natural gas-generation increases, carbon dioxide emissions unexpectedly declined. Those measured in the first quarter of 2012 was the lowest of any recorded for the first quarter of a year since 1992. [35]

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