INTEGRATED NATURAL GAS–ELECTRICITY RESOURCE ADEQUACY PLANNING IN LATIN AMERICA

Natural gas (NG) is considered as one of the most promising sources to supply the world energy demand, with a consumption expanding at a very accelerated pace. The largest use still is for industrial heating. The second largest use is for electric power generation, which experienced a strong growth after the development of combined-cycle generation technology (CC-NG) in the 1980s. Besides efficient, CC-NG is competitive in modules quite smaller than those of other technologies, such as coal. This has contributed to foster the implementation of power plants based on CC-NG in electricity markets worldwide and created interdependency between the electricity and the gas sectors.

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