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by azureel
1770 days ago
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Another reason for increasing gas demand might be related to global drought. I'm from Turkey and last year the energy production was 30% from hydro electric, 20% from natural gas conversion. This year, there is a severe drought here and the ratios swapped, 30% nat gas vs less than 20% hydro. Maybe other countries have similar problem, especially in Asia, so that may explain the demand. |
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AFAIK, that's also the case right now here in Brazil. The rain in most hydro power basins has been much lower than the long-term average, and to prevent the reservoirs from becoming empty (which would be a disaster, not only because of other water uses like drinking and irrigation, not to mention the damage to the ecosystem from the rivers becoming dry, but also because there is not nearly enough non-hydro power generation capacity to power the whole country), there has been an increase in the use of thermal power generators, many of them powered by natural gas.