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Economic Impact | Industrywide Issues | Jobs | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

Pittsburgh Energy Event Truly Mind-Blowing, $92B+ Investments for PA
July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

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We are still staggering, trying to get a handle on the Trump freight train that hit Pittsburgh yesterday at an event organized by Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick, called the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit. Seriously, we are in awe of what happened yesterday. At the event, featuring Donald Trump and a host of luminaries, a list of more than $92 BILLION of new investments was announced that will go to the Keystone State. That’s nearly one-tenth of a trillion dollars! ALL of it private investment (not taxpayer money). It’s not unfair to say that the bell of the ball, the centerpiece, was the Marcellus Shale. Much (not all, but a significant portion) of the announced investments centered on the use of natural gas—specifically, PA Marcellus Shale natural gas. Just, WOW!!!! In this post, we present a brief overview of the announced projects. In today’s other posts, we focus on individual projects that most caught our attention and continue to leave us speechless. Read More “Pittsburgh Energy Event Truly Mind-Blowing, $92B+ Investments for PA”
AI | Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

Blackstone Investing $25B in NEPA Data Centers, Gas Power Plants
July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

The largest amount of money to be invested in Pennsylvania in the coming decade by a single company, announced yesterday at Senator Dave McCormick’s Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit held in Pittsburgh, came from Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone pledged to invest *at least* $25 billion in the next 10 years in the Keystone State to (a) build data centers in the northeastern part of the state, and (b) build new Marcellus-fired power plants to provide electricity for those data centers. It’s a staggering amount of money. Blackstone President & COO, Jon Gray, was at yesterday’s event and said PA’s access to natural gas gives it a considerable advantage. “You can co-locate the data centers directly next to the source of power. That’s really the secret sauce here.” The Marcellus is responsible for Blackstone’s $25 billion investment! STAGGERING. Read More “Blackstone Investing $25B in NEPA Data Centers, Gas Power Plants”
Electrical Generation | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Indiana County | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania

Homer City Power Pledges to Buy $15 Billion of PA NatGas from EQT
July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

In a day of big news, there was big news related to the largest gas-fired power plant project in the country, along with a massive data center complex, to be built at a former coal-fired power plant site in Indiana County, PA (see Largest Gas-Fired Power Plant in the U.S. Coming in Western Pa.). As we previously informed you, the site will be transformed into a more than 3,200-acre natural gas-powered data center campus, complete with a 4.4-gigawatt Marcellus-fired power plant. Yesterday, the builder, Homer City Redevelopment (HCR), announced an agreement in principle to purchase $15 billion of Pennsylvania natural gas to feed the plant. A separate announcement stated that HCR will purchase all $15 billion of that gas from EQT Corporation. Read More “Homer City Power Pledges to Buy $15 Billion of PA NatGas from EQT”
Beaver County | Electrical Generation | Energy Companies | Energy Services | EQT Corp | Industrywide Issues | NFG Midstream | Pennsylvania

Frontier Group Converting Coal to Gas-Fired Plant, NatGas from EQT
July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

Bruce Mansfield Power Plant (click for larger version)

In the list of major energy projects announced for Pennsylvania yesterday, the Frontier Group announced plans to invest $3.2 billion to transform the former Bruce Mansfield coal power plant in Beaver County into a natural gas power station (and co-located data center), renamed the Shippingport Power Station. This project is expected to create 15,000 construction jobs and over 300 permanent jobs. But here’s the cool part. The new Shippingport Power Station will utilize approximately 800 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of natural gas produced from the Marcellus and Utica shales, all of which will be sourced from EQT Corporation. Read More “Frontier Group Converting Coal to Gas-Fired Plant, NatGas from EQT”
Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Snyder County

Capital Power Investing $3B in Hummel Gas-Fired Plant Shamokin Dam
July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

Hummel Station – Capital Power (click for larger version)

In 2018, the Panda Hummel Marcellus-fired power plant in Snyder County, PA, roared to life (see Marcellus-Fired Panda Hummel Electric Plant Roars to Life in PA). Panda Hummel was one of the largest coal-to-gas conversion projects in the country, constructing a large 1,124-megawatt (MW) Marcellus gas-fired electric plant on the site of a retired coal-fired plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County. In April, Capital Power Corporation, based in Edmonton (Alberta), Canada, a power producer with approximately 10 gigawatts (GW) of power generation at 30 facilities across North America, announced it was buying two gas-fired power plants from LS Power, including Hummel (see Canada’s Capital Power Buying 2 PJM Gas-Fired Plants in PA, OH). At yesterday’s energy event in Pittsburgh (see our lead post today), Capital Power announced a $3 billion investment over 10 years to upgrade and expand the Hummel plant, including $2 billion dedicated to purchasing Pennsylvania gas. Read More “Capital Power Investing $3B in Hummel Gas-Fired Plant Shamokin Dam”
Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

Antis Humiliate Themselves by Opposing $92B of PA Investment
July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat put in office by labor unions and environmental lefties, showed up at yesterday’s Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, organized by PA Republican Senator Dave McCormick. President Trump attended the meeting and announced that some $92 billion had been pledged by a variety of companies (all private investment) in the state of Pennsylvania for energy projects. Much of the investment revolves around data centers and natural gas-fired power plants. Some of it was for renewable energy projects and nuclear energy projects. Because it was a Republican-organized event with Trump attending, the environmental left in PA lost its collective mind—especially because Shapiro was there, too. Read More “Antis Humiliate Themselves by Opposing $92B of PA Investment”
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MDN’s Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Jul 16, 2025 [FREE ACCESS]
July 16, 2025July 17, 2025

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