Caterpillar

June 28, 2026

Chevron's Energy Forge One LLC builds and operates, with Engine No. 1's Joulent LLC holding a 50% co-funding option, GE Vernova and Caterpillar's Solar Turbines supplying hardware, and a path to 5 GW by the 2030s.

June 24, 2026

GE Vernova supplies the turbines, Caterpillar's Solar Turbines division adds capacity, and the whole thing runs behind-the-meter, no ERCOT interconnection queue, no grid strain.

June 15, 2026

Meanwhile Joule Capital Partners is bypassing the queue entirely, deploying 636 Caterpillar natural gas engines toward 1.5 GW of captive generation on a 4,000-acre Utah campus, with hosting starting this year.

June 4, 2026

Caterpillar secured a 2 GW commitment from American Intelligence & Power Corp. for the Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia using Cat G3516 sets with seven-second ramp

April 17, 2026

Nscale plans 2 GW of onsite generation at its West Virginia campus using Caterpillar engines to support up to 1.35 GW of AI compute under letter of intent with Microsoft and NVIDIA.

March 18, 2026

The campus targets **8 GW total generation** via microgrid, anchored by a 2 GW fast-response natural gas plant with Caterpillar turbines delivering between September 2026 and August 2027.

March 3, 2026

Caterpillar locked in 2 GW of fast-response gas gensets for AIP's Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia.

February 24, 2026

Lead times from Caterpillar, Cummins, and Rolls-Royce stretch to 107 weeks.

February 18, 2026

Caterpillar is supplying gas engines for a West Virginia site.