Lisa Martine Jenkins

1 week 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.

1 week 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?

1 week 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.

1 week 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%).

3 weeks 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.