By Paul Sankey
Published on June 23, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Hola, It was a relief to start the week as we hoped, with some non-Hormuz corporate newsflow, and in this note we talk about the Chevron vs Microsoft Permian mega-data center announcement. Relief, because my Sunday note on the geopolitics of the nation players in the Hormuz talks was exhausting to write, and sure enough the weekend talks yielded a framework for more talks, or something. Talks about talks for talks. The point of the …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on July 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What with busy results season in mid-summer, ie now, we are suspending Happy Hour for the next two weeks. It is just a little tough on the speaker to compete with results and summer, not fair to offer a graveyard slot. We also encourage you to get out and get tan once you get through results, not hunch over another Zoom call. So, summer recess on Happy Hour. For non-US readers, just to mention that …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on July 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
On Tuesday of this week (July 22nd 2025), the highly anticipated results of the capacity auction for the largest regulated publicly traded electricity market in the world, the PJM (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland) power system will be announced. PJM serves 65 million people with approximately 185 GW of installed capacity and a peak demand of around 153 GW, but more crucially, is the largest data center market in the world. “Think Pentagon” as we say …
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