Somewhere in Appalachia today, a pipefitter went to a job site before dawn. A drilling engineer will review subsurface data. A researcher will test a new technology designed to make energy production more efficient. And a boilermaker will finish a shift that started the night before. These are the people who keep the lights on. And right now, the country needs them more than ever.
The economy we’re building runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week to power technological innovation, advanced manufacturing, and energy needs that never sleep. The demand for abundant and reliable energy is increasing faster than the infrastructure needed to deliver it — and the question on everyone’s minds is a simple one: where will that power come from?
The answer is here. The Marcellus and Utica shale formations together comprise the single largest natural gas producing basin in the United States. The Appalachian Basin offers something that power producers, hyperscale developers and advanced manufacturers cannot find anywhere else: clean, affordable, and abundant energy resources built on proximity, reliability, and scale. For the companies building America’s digital and industrial future, affordable energy nearby is not a preference. It is a requirement…