The American Gas Association, the industry group representing over 200 utility companies delivering natural gas throughout the US, said its members had recently invested $3.8 million per day on energy efficiency programs.
The American shale basins of Marcellus and Utica that underpin rising US LNG exports and domestic gas use contain geological indicators of huge volumes of undiscovered technically recoverable resources of natural gas.
The United States has exported more natural gas than it imported for the second year in a row in the form of pipeline deliveries to Mexico and LNG shipments to scores of nations as more liquefaction capacity came on stream.