Caterpillar and Hunt Energy Company, L.P. (Hunt Energy) announced a long-term strategic collaboration agreement focused on delivering highly efficient, independent energy production. With customer success at the core of every project, this collaboration will ensure reliability and performance is delivered to meet the demanding “always-on” needs for data centers.
“Caterpillar is excited to continue to collaborate with Hunt Energy to deliver robust and efficient energy solutions for data centers,” said Melissa Busen, senior vice president, Caterpillar Electric Power division. “Hunt’s proven expertise in energy infrastructure complements Caterpillar’s leadership in power systems, enabling us to jointly develop scalable solutions that meet the high demands of reliability, uptime and performance critical to data center operations.”
Caterpillar will leverage its diverse portfolio of power solutions, including natural gas and diesel generation equipment, gas turbines, switchgear, controls, aftertreatment and engineering design services. Caterpillar will also provide leading‐edge monitoring and servicing capabilities, ensuring customers have complete assurance in uninterrupted power delivery, with or without a connection to the power grid.
Hunt Energy will contribute its deep expertise in infrastructure development, project financing and operational execution for data center and distributed energy resource projects. They will also bring their significant experience in battery energy storage (BESS) projects, having deployed over 310 MWs of BESS solutions in the last four years.
The first project is expected to launch in Texas, marking the start of a multi-year initiative to deliver up to 1GW of power generation capacity for data centers across North America, laying the foundation for future global deployment.
“This partnership with Caterpillar represents a major step forward in our commitment to delivering innovative and flexible energy solutions,” said Hunter Hunt, chief executive officer at Hunt Energy. “Starting in Texas, we’re laying the foundation for a new era of data center power infrastructure.”
With a combined 190 years of industry experience, the two companies bring a unique blend of land assets, strategic resources, best-in-class products and capital, uniquely positioning them to deploy these solutions effectively and at scale.
