Thanks to the Utica and even part of Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale plays (map here), Ohio is now one of our of major natural gas producing states. Looking forward, Ohio has many more gas opportunities: I've already documented the Northeast gas pipeline build-out primed to bring gas to more markets, here. Meaning that to a large degree, the price impact of gas pipelines for prices isn't certain. Overall, there is an immense 18 Bcf/d of new gas pipeline takeaway capacity expected online for Appalachia by the end of 2018. For natural gas especially, Ohio has lots of room to grow: in the first half of this year, gas was just 21% of Ohio's electricity, about 1/3 of coal's market share.

Source: Forbes September 10, 2017 23:03 UTC