During his campaign, President-elect Biden proposed to transform the energy sector and eliminate GHG emissions from the power sector by 2035. Doing so would excise 27 percent of U.S. GHG emissions and help decarbonize other sectors, like transportation, as they electrify. Such a rapid transition, however, raises concerns about the power sector of today. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Even if coal is on a steady decline, natural gas is still a major energy source for the power sector - and it's still growing. The political and economic challenges of that transition will be higher if it requires shutting down working gas plants. So with such an ambitious target, what is the future role of gas in the power sector?