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Skip Horvath, President, Natural Gas Supply Association
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Horvath is president and CEO of the Natural Gas Supply Association, representing the major integrated and independent natural gas producers in the U.S.
Horvath holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a masters degree in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley.
After working on the space shuttle for NASA, and then completing his military service, Horvath joined the Rand Corporation to work on national defense and energy issues. From there he joined the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) where he eventually became the Chief Operating Officer. As the head of NGSA, he is focusing on ways to make the entire natural gas industry work more efficiently.
November 2, 2009 07:43 AM
Incentives Needed For Natural Gas There are tremendous opportunities to reduce carbon emissions by putting natural gas to more use in the electric sector. It’s a no-brainer that we should provide incentives to encourage the retirement of power plants that are inefficient and produce high amounts of carbon, so that they can be replaced with cleaner, more efficient power plants. And it’s equally obvious that there are tremendous opportunities to reduce carbon emissions by putting natural gas to more use in the electric sector. For example, combined cycle natural gas-fired generators are often the most efficient generation facilities in service,…
Read moreSeptember 11, 2009 09:23 AM
Research & development into promising carbon capture and storage (CCS) applications – with specific attention to natural gas CCS -- should be encouraged by Congress and policymakers. CCS is a valuable addition to the arsenal of approaches to global carbon reduction and appears particularly well-suited for capturing emissions from a single significant source such as a power plant. Although CCS research and development has inaccurately become synonymous with coal-fired power plants in the mind of the public, it’s critical that lawmakers provide equal opportunities for the funding of CCS with natural gas power plants. In fact, the use of CCS at…
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