TC Energy Corp. says it sees rising demand for natural gas pipelines in the future as it reported an increase in second-quarter profit from a year earlier, despite a complex

Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy raised its full-year adjusted earnings forecast on Thursday, citing rising demand for natural gas driven by electrification, coal-to-gas conversions and AI data centre growth in North America.

Natural gas has become the indispensable backbone of modern energy systems, fueling power plants, heating homes, driving industry, and connecting continents via LNG, despite pressures to decarbonize.