Duke Energy's Rogers: Efficiency, shale gas will drive dramatic change in energy industry | Duke Today

November 28, 2012 | Scott Williams, Fuqua '14 and Margaret Lillard, Duke Energy Initiative

He called shale gas a "bridge fuel" between existing technologies and energy sources that have yet to be refined or created, and predicted a continued struggle between regulators and providers, given the increasingly cheap cost of natural gas generation.
These changes and other innovations will lead to a "virtual white sheet of paper" for the utility industry in the second half of the 21st century, he said, with all existing power plants likely to be retired by 2050.