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Natural Gas: a Cleaner Fuel for the Environment
On Earth Day, Summit Natural Gas of Maine is proud to offer an environmentally-friendly energy source.
As America joins more than 190 countries to celebrate Earth Day this month, Summit Natural Gas of Maine is proud to offer homes and businesses an environmentally-friendly energy source that is helping Maine reduce its dependency on foreign oil.
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Summit Natural Gas
The natural gas we supply to residents and businesses in the Kennebec Valley region and in southern Maine comes from North American sources and arrives by pipeline instead of trucks or trains.
Natural gas burns cleaner than oil. The combustion of natural gas produces 30% fewer emissions overall, and significantly lower levels of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide than does the combustion of heating oil, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA has stated that oil fuels will contribute nearly 1,000 million more metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions this year than natural gas will.
Switching from oil to natural gas also reduces pollution from delivery trucks since a home or business supply of natural gas is always on and always “full.” The efficiency of natural gas also saves on electricity usage by being able to prepare meals and dry clothes more quickly, and by having a furnace that runs less and maintains temperature longer.
Summit Natural Gas of Maine is committed to providing clean, affordable natural gas to Mainers for years to come, and we know that the value of natural gas to a community is greatest when the majority of residents and businesses have access to the fuel. While other companies consider a 20-30% connection rate to be successful, Summit has averaged a 70% connection rate one year after beginning service in a town or city. We expect to reach 90% of potential customers in the Kennebec Valley region in the next five years, and more than 80% of potential customers in Cumberland, Falmouth and Yarmouth by 2019.
Our approach of making natural gas highly accessible to the majority of people in a community assures the largest environmental and economic impact for community members. The 2,300 residential and business customers we currently have will collectively save more than $2 million when they begin receiving gas.
Summit Natural Gas of Maine has partnered with Efficiency Maine to offer thousands of dollars in rebates for homeowners switching to a natural gas heating system. Summit residential customers can get back up to $2,000 on the purchase of a high-efficiency natural gas boiler, and up to $1,625 on a high-efficiency natural gas furnace.
There are also rebates for gas water heaters, gas stoves, gas clothes dryers, and boiler/furnace conversions to gas. All Summit residential customers can also receive up to $960 in rebates for an Efficiency Maine-approved energy audit with 12 hours of air sealing.
Build an environmentally-friendly heating system and put more of your money back in your pocket with Summit Natural Gas of Maine. Learn more about all the rebates at Efficiencymaine.com/at-home.
8 Comments on "Natural Gas: a Cleaner Fuel for the Environment"
Davy, Hermann, MO on Sat, 12th Apr 2014 11:52 am
Warm and fuzzy stuff makes me happy and confident. No worries folks cause NatGas to the rescue. NatGas is great as far as I am concerned especially for use in the residential heating, vital chem feedstocks, and fertilizer. Let us keep it to that. Forget exports and transport so we have home heating energy security. I imagine if NatGas stocks don’t build by next year and we have more erratic weather all the market distorting lobbying by the NatGas people to export or power our transport system will evaporate. The article sounds like the clean coal commercials you used to see before that happiness evaporated. We know what methane does to the atmosphere and we know how bad cities leak NatGas through connections. We also know how bad the losses are through fracking. Nothing clean about gas. It does help eliminate smog and acid rain but it does not help AGW. Clean and green is no carbon.
SilentRunning on Sat, 12th Apr 2014 1:15 pm
Green-washing at its finest.
Like offering Bacon cheese burgers at a Healthy Living Fair…
rockman on Sat, 12th Apr 2014 2:44 pm
SR – Granted I drill for oil/NG for a living but: “…an environmentally-friendly energy source”. FRIENDLIER… yes. FRIENDLY… no. Kinda like cutting the bacon off you cheeseburger. Or cutting back from 3 packs a day to 2. Just makes them feel like they are part of the solution and not part of the problem.
bobinget on Sat, 12th Apr 2014 4:12 pm
I’m selling ‘solar dryers’. A longish thin rope and an invention called, strangely enough, the ‘clothes pin’
(any dollar store)
You may need two nails, (Amazon.com)
Wait till Arbor day to secure two trees free from huggers.org. Plant trees at least twenty feet apart. (6.09600 meters). Wait five to ten years.
Attach damp laundry to thin rope…. (outdoor store)
Wait six to nine hours depending on conditions.
Detach laundry and fold.
GregT on Sat, 12th Apr 2014 4:27 pm
Many municipalities have banned clothes lines. Besides, where would you put the static cling sheets?
Davy, Hermann, MO on Sat, 12th Apr 2014 4:59 pm
Greg, I feel my blood warm when I hear about municipalities that forbid front yard gardens, drying cloths on lines, and small animal containment. What the frigg do these folks think about something called AGW and the energy crisis. I can understand denying the energy crisis but AGW???
Boat on Sat, 12th Apr 2014 6:09 pm
, approximately
150 billions of cubic meters of natural
gas are flared in the world each year,
representing a 15 to 20 billion dollar
waste of resources and a 260 to 400
million metric ton contribution to global
greenhouse gas emissions.
looks dirty to me.
G Moser on Sat, 12th Apr 2014 6:25 pm
We should look closely at the REALITY of natural gas. At least two peer reviewed articles have indicated that unless gas leakage is kept below a certain % loss, it is actually WORSE than coal for climate change. And these two studies indicated that the losses were greater than needed, to be better than coal.
Remember methane (natural gas) is about 24 times more intense as a climate change gas than carbon dioxide (from coal, gasoline etc).
So, unless leakage is kept very low through the ENTIRE production and use process, natural gas is worse than coal as a climate change gas. Lets get this straight, and verified before we crown fracking and natural gas as “clean”.