The Research Of Price Rationalization On China Natural Gas Consumption

Before the end of the 20 th century,coal occupies a high proportion in the energy consumption structure,burning a lot of coal will lead to excessive sulfur dioxide,nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide and other harmful gas emissions,in some areas suffer from acid rain more and more frequently,the deteriorating atmospheric environment has brought inconvenience to the people’s life.Natural gas,as a priority development in the 21 st century,has the characteristics of clean,efficient and low-pollution emissions,which have led to the expansion of natural gas in the world’s primary energy consumption structure.China is gradually developing natural gas industry,but the current natural gas pricing mechanism is not perfect,compared with the international natural gas price level and found that China’s residential gas prices the lowest,the price of industrial gas is the highest,commercial gas prices living between the two.As one of the mature natural gas market in the developed countries,the price structure of natural gas consumption terminals in the United States is just the opposite to the grid structure of China’s natural gas consumption terminal.The irrationality of the pricing mechanism will lead to distortion of the terminal consumer price,which in turn leads to unreasonable and wasteful allocation of resources.Beside,high industrial gas prices will lead enterprises to use cheaper alternative energy sources,such as coal,oil and other fossil fuels.This will exacerbate air pollution and harm the people’s physical and mental health.In this paper,the concept of ‘economic value of natural gas us’ is introduced by using the method of net back value method,comparative analysis method and alternative value method.Combined with the characteristics of natural gas resources and different characteristics of different terminal,we can calculate the real price of the natural gas in different terminal,and then compare the results with the actual natural gas market price,derive the degree of distortion of natural gas prices.It could be valued from the calculation that the real price of the natural gas for industrial is 2.26 yuan / cubic meter,and the current market price of industrial gas in the natural gas market is generally higher than the measured value of the industrial terminal users.Measured the real price of natural gas for residential are mostly in the 5 yuan / cubic meter or more,the actual residential gas price is generally lower than the real price of residential natural gas.The results show that the current domestic natural gas consumption terminal prices are not a good reflection of the real natural gas value.At the end of this paper,the author puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions for the domestic natural gas pricing,and hopes to provide suggestions for the reform of China’s natural gas terminal pricing mechanism.