Balancing the Grid – Northeast Natural Gas Supply, Demand in Focus as Summer Nears

Balancing the Grid – Northeast Natural Gas Supply, Demand in Focus as Summer Nears

Author: NGI: Natural Gas Intelligence May 22, 2025 Duration: 12:47
In this episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow, NGI Markets Editor Kevin Dobbs talks with Paragon Global Markets LLC’s Steve Blair, managing director of institutional energy sales. The two discuss the summer ahead in natural gas markets, with a special focus on the densely populated and heavy gas-consuming Northeast.   Blair and Dobbs address relatively modest gas production and lingering storage deficits in the East as well as domestic weather demand expectations for the summer ahead and beyond.  Wildcards up for discussion include the ongoing buildout of the U.S. export complex and the Trump administration’s on-again, off-again tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico.

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