This comment addresses analytic flaws and ambiguities in the U.S. Department of Energy Report 2024 LNG Export Study: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports, December 2024 (“Report”).
The analysis presented in the Report is sufficiently weak analytically that it should not be used for evaluation of federal energy policies as a general matter, and for analysis of proposed U.S. LNG export facility projects or LNG exports to economies with which the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement.
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