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Jordan Blum

Jordan Blum is Fortune’s Energy Editor. Based in Houston, Blum oversees coverage of a growing global energy sector for oil and gas, transition businesses, renewables, and critical minerals. An award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience, he has examined the ins and outs of the oil and gas shale boom for the Houston Chronicle, S&P Global, and Hart Energy. He also has worked as a congressional reporter in Washington and as a statehouse and education reporter in his native Louisiana.

Four years ago, BKV started buying up the two Temple power plants in Texas—located between Austin and Dallas—which now total 1.5 gigawatts of electricity generation capacity—enough to power more than 1.1 million homes, or a major data center campus. There is room to expand.
Energy
How a Texas gas producer plans to exploit the ‘megatrend’ of power plants for AI hyperscalers
By Jordan BlumDecember 5, 2025
Tesla cofounder leads U.S. ‘urban mines’ to compete with China in battery recycling and critical minerals
Innovation
Tesla cofounder leads U.S. ‘urban mines’ to compete with China in battery recycling and critical minerals
By Jordan BlumNovember 27, 2025
Mining equipment sits inside the pit at the Mountain Pass mine, operated by MP Materials, in Mountain Pass, California, U.S. America's top rare earths producer, MP Materials, is expanding its vertical integration of mining and magnets production in the U.S. after years of shipping its output to China because there was no refining capacity available to handle its production. Photographer: Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Magazine
The U.S. aims to breathe easy amid China’s chokehold on rare earths, but loosening the grip takes years of concerted effort
By Jordan BlumNovember 17, 2025
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President Trump speak and laugh while seated during a dinner with tech leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025.
Energy
Your electric bill has replaced the price at the pump as the hot-button, political bellwether
By Jordan BlumNovember 14, 2025
Shale oil
Energy
SM Energy is acquiring Civitas in $13 billion oil and gas merger of near equals in the Permian Basin
By Jordan BlumNovember 3, 2025
Exxon and Chevron hike oil production despite global glut and see more ‘frontier exploration’ as U.S. shale boom slows
Energy
Exxon and Chevron hike oil production despite global glut and see more ‘frontier exploration’ as U.S. shale boom slows
By Jordan BlumOctober 31, 2025
Jose La Loggia, EMEA group president for the HVAC giant Trane Technologies, speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh about the transition for cleaner and more affordable energy. He spoke on a panel with Lucid Motors Middle East President Faisal Sultan, left, and Gemini Corp. CEO Kunaal Patawari, right.
Conferences
From ‘greenwashing’ to ‘greenhushing,’ clean energy momentum advances despite political roadblocks
By Jordan BlumOctober 30, 2025
Three panelists at the Fortune Global Forum
Conferences
Saudi power chair: Tariffs weaken the global energy transition and hurt humanity
By Jordan BlumOctober 28, 2025
Zach Dell is the co-founder and CEO of Base Power.
Energy
Michael Dell’s son aims to transform the home power business by selling electricity and backup battery power like a Costco membership
By Jordan BlumOctober 28, 2025
Libery Energy's hydraulic fracturing, or frac, spreads are increasingly electrified with natural gas power, a technology now translating to powering data centers.
Energy
AI’s insatiable need for power is driving an unexpected boom in oil-fracking company stocks 
By Jordan BlumOctober 23, 2025
A plane carrying Donald Trump Jr. arrives in January in Nuuk, Greenland, where he is making a short private visit after his father, President Trump, suggested Washington annex the autonomous Danish territory.
Energy
A Texas company plans to drill for oil in Greenland despite a climate change ban and Trump’s desire to annex the territory
By Jordan BlumOctober 22, 2025
Bloom Energy showcases an array of its fuel cell energy server stacks that offer on-site, off-grid power to data centers and much more.
Energy
Bloom Energy’s stock is up 1,000% in a year because its fuel cells are solving AI’s data center power problem
By Jordan BlumOctober 16, 2025
Fermi Inc. cofounders Toby Neugebauer, left, and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, right, mark their Nasdaq IPO in early October for their AI power company plans.
Energy
Rick Perry’s AI power startup Fermi already has a $16 billion market cap—and zero revenue
By Jordan BlumOctober 10, 2025
A fire burns Oct. 3 at Chevron El Segundo refinery outside of Los Angeles. A big explosion late on Oct. 2 produced a large orange blaze that could be seen from miles away from the refinery.
Energy
California’s ‘impossible’ dream of ending fossil fuels isn’t working, and now it’s looking at price spikes and shortages
By Jordan BlumOctober 9, 2025
Philanthropist Warren Buffett is joined onstage by 24 other philanthropist and influential business people featured on the Forbes list of 100 Greatest Business Minds.
Energy
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway may have scored a ‘genius’ win-win in $10 billion acquisition that could mark the last big deal of his career
By Jordan BlumOctober 2, 2025
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