Efficient Natural Gas
With efficient natural gas appliances, natural gas customers are reducing their carbon footprints’ as overall energy demand continues to increase.

Natural gas usage per household has decreased even as overall demand for energy has risen. This trend is due in part to the installation of tighter-fitting windows and doors, better insulation, utility-sponsored energy efficiency programs, and the development of increasingly more efficient natural gas appliances.
Extraordinarily Efficient Natural Gas
By comparing something as simple as water heaters, you can see the natural gas difference: using natural gas saves you money, and benefits our environment.
Tankless Natural Gas
Full-Fuel Cycle Energy Consumption*: 8.6 MMBtu annually
CO2 Emissions*: 1.1 tons annually
Natural Gas
Full-Fuel Cycle Energy Consumption*: 26.64 MMBtu annually
CO2 Emissions*: 1.5 tons annually
Electric Resistance
Full-Fuel Cycle Energy Consumption*: 49.8 MMBtu annually
CO2 Emissions*: 3.3 tons annually
Commitment to Efficiency
As outlined in AGA’s 2020 Natural Gas Efficiency Programs Report, gas utilities spent a total of $1.57 billion on energy efficiency related expenditures in 2020 and budgeted $1.6 billion for the 2021 program year. Spending on energy efficiency programs by natural gas utilities has increased by 391 percent since 2007. Forty-two percent of expenditures went towards single-family residential programs, while 22 percent went towards low-income programs
With these significant investments, natural gas utilities have saved 1.7 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
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