Gas use peaks or plummets, in Australia

Residential, manufacturing, and electricity sector use all entered structural decline years ago. LNG exports have almost certainly peaked

Petajoules per year
Chart: Ketan Joshi, The Australia InstituteSource: Reeve, A., Wood, T., McKenzie, H., and Jefferson, B. (2026). Out of gas: Managing the decline of gas in Australia. Grattan Institute (DCCEEW, AER)Get the dataDownload imageCreated with Datawrapper