Leon Brathwaite, Anthony Dixon, Jorge Gonzales, Melissa Jones, Robert Kennedy, Chris Marxen, Peter Puglia, Angela Tanghetti
Abstract
California Energy Commission staff produced the 2015 Natural Gas Outlook report to support the California Energy Commission’s 2015 Integrated Energy Policy Report. California Energy Commission staff, in consultation with industry experts, developed cases depicting future natural gas demand and supply trends under a variety of assumptions. The mid‐energy demand case represents a business‐as‐usual case in which staff based likely outcomes on current trends in natural gas markets, commercial activity, and economic developments. Staff created the high demand/low price and the low demand/high price cases by altering assumptions in ways that led to conditions that would move natural gas demand lower or higher than in the mid case. The results from this modeling effort are coordinated with other modeling efforts at the California Energy Commission.
