Natural Gas: Meeting the Demand for Reliable, Low-Cost Energy
The energy landscape is experiencing increasing demand for power and the urgent need for reliable and cost-effective energy solutions. Recently, U.S. power demand was projected to rise by 15.8% by 20291, highlighting the critical need to bring more generation and capacity online at a record pace. To sustain economic growth and maintain the United States' leadership in innovation areas such as artificial intelligence, it is essential to ensure that this demand is met efficiently.
Today, more than ever, meeting the rising demand for power will require deploying all forms of energy available across the nation, including renewables, battery storage, natural gas-powered generation and nuclear power. Though renewables will continue to play a major part in meeting demand, especially now, more natural gas-powered generation will also be critical in ensuring reliable and low-cost energy is available when and where organizations like yours need it. By ensuring access to dependable natural gas-powered electricity, we can help you maintain operational stability and fuel your future growth, all while supporting the broader objective of a robust, reliable and resilient energy infrastructure.
Why Your Organization Should Consider
Natural Gas-Powered Generation
Here’s how natural gas can help your organization secure the power it needs to grow:
1. Reliability
Gas-powered generation provides a consistent and dependable source of baseload power, essential for meeting the continuous energy demands of any organization. The ability of gas plants to deliver a steady power supply ensures smooth and uninterrupted operations.
2. Customizable
Natural gas-powered plants are highly adaptable, designed to meet specific size and capacity requirements. Whether large-scale projects or smaller installations, natural gas facilities can be tailored to suit unique needs, offering scalable solutions.
3. Seamless Integration
Gas-powered generation can be deployed with nuclear and other energy sources, creating a balanced and reliable energy mix that meets specific load requirements. This synergy can enhance overall grid stability and resilience.
4. Operational Flexibility
One of the key advantages of natural gas plants is their quick ramp-up and down times, permitting swift output adjustment to match energy demand fluctuations. This flexibility is crucial for maintaining grid stability and managing peak load periods.
Delivering reliable, firm power to meet your energy demand
As a leader in all forms of American energy with experience in every part of the energy value chain and the most comprehensive power generation business in the world, NextEra Energy is at the forefront of energy generation, investing more significantly in U.S. energy infrastructure than any other company. NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, is primed to deliver reliable, low-cost energy solutions, including integrated renewable, storage and gas-powered generation.
With a long history as the nation’s largest builder and operator of gas-powered generation, we bring deep industry experience and advanced technology to each project, ensuring exceptional efficiency. Our proven experience surpasses developing, constructing and operating power generation facilities across the U.S. and we ensure all operations meet federal, state and local requirements, while maintaining the highest standards of environmental and regulatory compliance.
Our extensive portfolio of operating sites with transmission capacity and nearly 30 gigawatts of stand-alone storage interconnection in queue positions us to dramatically accelerate our deployments to meet the urgent power needs of today and the future. NextEra Energy Resources is ready to co-create tailored solutions with your organization to help secure the power you need.
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