Chevron’s global upstream volumes increased by more than 5% in Q2 2026, while U.S. production reached a record of nearly 2.1 MMboe/d, the company said during its quarterly earnings call July 31. Downstream operations also reached new highs. Chevron processed more than 1 million b/d through its U.S. refineries, a record.
Plug Power said July 13 it has agreed to sell its planned Graham, TX, green hydrogen project (#9 in map below) to Stream Data Centers for up to $76.5 million. As noted in this week’s Hydrogen Billboard, the transaction represents a growing trend in hydrogen and related clean-energy projects, as industrial sites with substantial power access are increasingly being redirected toward data centers because those projects can often generate higher and faster returns than energy-transition infrastructure.
This morning Pembina Pipeline Corporation announced a positive Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Greenlight Electricity Centre (GLEC), a 932 MW gas-fired combined cycle power generation facility to be located within Alberta’s Industrial Heartland in Sturgeon County near Edmonton.
The SunZia Wind Project, the largest wind farm in the U.S., began commercial operations this month. The wind farm, located in New Mexico, has a total net summer generating capacity of 3,650 megawatts (MW) and is composed of 916 wind turbines. Its capacity is more than three times larger than the next two largest wind farms, Alta Wind in Southern California (1,098 MW) and Great Prairie in northern Texas (1,027 MW).
A data center developer’s top priorities are speed, speed, and speed, with cost and other factors coming next. Today, we look at how developers must solve the issues around offtake agreements and power generation and also preview our latest Drill Down Report.
As rising AI-driven demand for data centers has supported growth in key markets like Virginia and Texas, developers are increasingly casting a wider net. Today, we examine the factors drawing large-scale projects to “non-key” states, with a close look at Indiana, Louisiana, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Data center development is booming across the country. But power and water supplies, fiber connectivity, and regulatory environments differ across states. Today’s RBN blog compares seven leading states for data centers on the key factors that help determine development outcomes.
The continuing U.S. and Israeli war against Iran and the rapid expansion of data centers and AI dominated the conversation at this year’s CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, which gathers more than 10,000 attendees from more than 80 countries.
All 40 electrolyzers at the ACES Delta storage hub in Utah have been installed and have operated at 100% load, HydrogenPro, the site’s electrolyzer supplier, said during its Q4 2025 earnings call on February 27. The site, which is nearing completion, will be one of the largest green hydrogen production and storage facilities in the U.S. once operational.
Amazon announced it will spend as much as $200 billion this year on AI and cloud services, about double what it spent last year.
