M-U States Add 38.6 GW of Gas Power, Nearly Matching Texas

A new report from Global Energy Monitor (GEM) — a group that says it exists "in support of the worldwide movement for clean energy" — was written to sound an alarm about a runaway natural gas buildout. Buried in one of its charts is the best news Appalachian landowners have gotten all year. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia together added almost exactly as much new gas-fired power capacity in the first six months of 2026 as the entire state of Texas.

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