Black & Veatch Electric Industry Report – The Rise of NatGas

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B&V logoBlack & Veatch, a ginormous engineering, consulting and construction company, recently released their "2016 Strategic Directions: Electric Industry Report" (full copy below). The report captures Black & Veatch's global engineering and thought leadership to examine how distributed electric generation, the low price of natural gas and modern customer information systems represent growth opportunities for the electric industry--even as security concerns are on the rise and legacy power generation sources (i.e. coal powered plants) are fading away, being replaced by new natgas technology. One trend MDN editor Jim Willis did not foresee when he started writing about the Marcellus industry back in January 2009 was the rise of natgas-fired electric generating plants--and the critically important role they would play in the Marcellus/Utica region. This B&V report provides useful insights into how natgas and electric generation are increasing "joined at the hip"...

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