Natural gas can play an important role in the 27 European Union member states over the next decades as “a bridging fuel” to a sustainable energy future, said the gas trade group Eurogas in its first evaluation and analysis of the future role of natural gas in Europe. Current president of Brussels-based Eurogas is Domenica Dispenza, Eni SPA gas and power chief operating officer.Eurogas’s newly established forecasting taskforce noted that expected investments in new energy efficiency and climate change commitments will reduce energy consumption growth in the EU 27 over the next 25 years to the “disproportionately” low level of 0.5%/year, compared with 1.6%/year...