Assessment of Expanding Natural Gas Use in Transportation
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
This report summarizes an analysis of the impacts of a successful expansion of natural gas use by the transportation sector. While natural gas has been successfully introduced into a few niche markets, it currently makes up a small fraction of transportation energy use. The barriers to expansion include several technical issues currently limiting the natural gas vehicle market . If research and development is successful in addressing these technical challenges, there could be a significant shift to natural gas vehicles. With the increased production of cheap natural gas, the Energy Information Administration within the U.S. Department of Energy projects a surplus production of 5.56 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to be exported in 2050. The analysis presented in this report shows that up to 3.40 trillion cubic feet of this surplus could be used by a set of selected transportation modes.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1463249
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/ESD-18/11; 144766
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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