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1 week ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Lisa Martine Jenkins
Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy’s initial pitch was that in a digitized world, “there’s no such thing as enough energy,” recalled CEO KR Sridhar. And large users like data centers or manufacturers would need that power to be produced onsite, even if they’re relying primarily on the grid.
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2 weeks ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Lisa Martine Jenkins
Solar and storage companies are already adjusting their domestic production plans in response to the Trump administration — and the lingering impact of Biden administration policies. One significant change? The U.S. is expected to double its number of domestic suppliers of U.S.-made cells in two years. That’s according to the latest report from Anza, the solar and storage software platform.
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4 weeks ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Lisa Martine Jenkins
On his first day in office, President Trump signed the Unleashing American Energy executive order, which ordered agencies to stop disbursing funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act — two of the signature legislative accomplishments of the Biden administration. The 90-day pause, which was ostensibly to review agency processes, created widespread confusion for key clean energy programs.
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4 weeks ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup |Lisa Martine Jenkins
Trump’s sweeping global tariffs may be on hold for 90 days, but that’s not giving clean energy developers — even the large ones — much confidence about what’s going to happen next. OCI Energy, a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate OCI Holdings, is a Texas-based utility scale developer of solar and storage projects.
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4 weeks ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Shayle Kann |Lisa Martine Jenkins |Maeve Allsup
Listen to the episode on: Big tech’s data center construction boom is fueling a flurry of natural gas development, despite the fuel’s challenges, and it’s complicating big tech’s climate goals. But carbon capture and storage (CCS) could mitigate emissions from those new plants, and hyperscalers could secure low-carbon power while meeting their needs for speed and reliability. So how could natural gas with CCS serve data center loads?
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4 weeks ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup |Lisa Martine Jenkins |Bianca Giacobone
California battery maker Lyten announced today that it has successfully brought the last major piece of its supply chain to the United States. The company has begun production of its proprietary lithium alloys — a key component of lithium alloy anodes that are still largely processed in China — in Pennsylvania. The news comes as the global battery industry grapples with Trump’s trade war with China and its repercussions for critical minerals.
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1 month ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Lisa Martine Jenkins |Maeve Allsup
Demand for electricity is expected to increase by 75% by mid-century. And a growing share of that demand will come from data centers. According to BloombergNEF’s latest New Energy Outlook report, out today, data centers are expected to jump to 4.5% of final power demand by 2035, and then nearly double to 8.7% by 2050. That’s less than the demand from electric vehicles (11.2% by 205) but more than the combined load of air conditioning and heat pumps (7.1%).
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1 month ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Lisa Martine Jenkins |Maeve Allsup
Everyone chuckled after Deep Sky’s Phil De Luna told the Global Direct Air Capture Conference audience to “come to Canada!” The quip came amid a highly technical conversation about the challenge of finding financing for the nascent technology, but captured a sentiment that cropped up throughout the two-day event — that the uncertainty of the United States market in 2025 is prompting CDR companies to look elsewhere.
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1 month ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup |Lisa Martine Jenkins |Bianca Giacobone
In the last year, virtually every major tech company has signaled their interest in advanced nuclear power to fuel their data center ambitions. Google signed a deal with small modular reactor company Kairos Power. Meta issued a request for proposals targeting up to four gigawatts of new nuclear capacity, including SMRs. And late last year, Amazon both invested $500 million in the advanced reactor company X-energy and partnered with Energy Northwest to deploy a nuclear project in Washington.
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1 month ago | 
latitudemedia.com | Lisa Martine Jenkins |Maeve Allsup
The Trump administration has gutted the federal home energy assistance program as a part of the mass firing of 10,000 Department of Health and Human Services workers. The staff in charge of administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, were let go earlier today, according to a statement shared via email by the National Energy and Utility Affordability Coalition.
