Thanks to CERA / S&P - Houston Energy Week - March 23 - 28, 2026. Another amazing year has closed at CERA - I believe the best ever - even worth the 10+ hrs collectively Bill Brown and I spent at TSA in LGA and IAH! A huge focus on global needs for ALL of the above energy - power generation is key and skill sets / $ around it. More natural gas and coal with CCUS, geothermal, nuclear, and storage is needed in the face of supply volatility in the Middle East/ South America and a race with China. Increased focus was finally given to Pana's specialty, project sourcing and funding projects (equity) to get projects to FID and bankability (final investment decision). Pana continues to invest with major fortune 50 industrial, real estate, manufacturing, and energy partners that have the operational expertise to get these projects done. New tech - AI, Resiliency, Robotics, Decarb – sustainability. Including these new technologies in projects makes them FOAK (first of a kind) BUT brings increased sustainability aka PROFITABILITY to projects. Special shout out to Microsoft and Google for their innovation houses to show how they and their partners are unlocking increased profitability in traditional energy projects – drilling, refining, transportation, generation, etc working hand in hand with companies like BP and Chevron. Bill Brown’s talk with Meta and On.energy on data centers and AI infra highlights our GREATEST and LAST chance to build energy, critical materials and data defense sustainably/ profitably. The time is now. Bill Brown | LinkedIn. Look out for more news on the New Waters Data center benchmark and Pana data center projects – info sessions globally this year. Thanks so much to S&P- Ken Downey Ken Downey - Executive Director, Innovation Agora, Ceraweek at S&P Global | The Org and team for including Pana and New Waters. Also, thanks to partners leading the corporate charge on these innovations - Nextera (NEE), GE Vernova (GEV), Baker Hughes (BKR), Exxon (XOM), Shell (Shel), Chevron (CVX), SLB (SLB), Honeywell (HON), Caterpillar (CAT), Google (Googl), Microsoft (MSFT), etc...
