LNG Gives Time To Build Renewable Gas (original) (raw)
GasNZ is urging the Government to use the time that importing LNG buys to develop a domestic renewable gas supply.
Renewable biomethane gas produced from organic waste has the potential to replace up to half of the expected demand for natural gas by 2050, Jeffrey Clarke, chief executive of GasNZ, says.
“Renewable gas is essential for local industries that need gas for heating processes that electricity cannot easily replicate,” he says.
“Renewable biomethane can provide this, just as natural gas does now.
“Producing biomethane from organic waste is already happening at scale around the world.
“Denmark, for instance, has already replaced 40 percent of its natural gas consumption with biomethane with the intention of this supplying 100 percent of gas supply by 2035.”
GasNZ also notes that while domestic natural gas supplies are diminishing in New Zealand, around half of New Zealand gas consumers – including all those in the South Island – use LPG (liquified petroleum gas) which is still in plentiful supply.
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