Maeve Allsup

San Francisco

Climate Tech Reporter at Latitude Media

Covering the new frontiers of climate tech @_latitudemedia | [email protected] | formerly @morningbrew, Bloomberg Law @Blaw

Articles

What the XPrize winners tell us about the state of carbon removal

1 day ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

Carbon removal companies whose revenue streams go beyond the voluntary credit market just got a $100 million vote of confidence for their diversified business models. Today, the Elon Musk-backed XPrize announced the winners of its massive carbon removal prize, bringing an end to a four-year competition aimed at accelerating the development of technologies capable of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at the gigaton scale.
Unpacking Michigan's data center energy cost debate

3 days ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

Michigan regulators are now reviewing multiple objections to Consumer Energy’s proposed rate terms for data centers, which would create a demand rate specifically for hyperscale facilities of more than 100 megawatts. The debate is playing out amid growing scrutiny nationally about the immense energy demands of such data centers — and who should pay to connect them.
What will happen to DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico?

6 days ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

When it comes to energy, Puerto Rico faces unique challenges: vulnerability to extreme weather, historic underinvestment in the electric grid, and ongoing fiscal pressures that complicate both grid maintenance and long-term planning. And in recent years, it has been the Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office that has been and largely responsible for modernizing, rebuilding, and future-proofing the island’s grid.
Tariffs are already throwing a wrench in solar project financing

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.
Serving data center load with carbon capture

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?
Lyten’s final step in tariff-proofing its supply chain

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.
Will data center demand extend the life of fossil fuel plants?

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%).
Utah is taking a different approach to new data center load

1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup |Bianca Giacobone |Stephen Lacey

Starting next month, new data center load seeking to come online in Utah could have the opportunity to source their own generation, thanks to a law signed by the governor at the end of March. Utah’s Senate Bill 132 modifies Rocky Mountain Power’s duty to serve “large loads,” which it defines as 100 megawatts or more in five years.
Bringing back evaporative cooling for data centers

1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Bianca Giacobone |Maeve Allsup |Stephen Lacey

Some quick research into the largest sources of fresh water in the world would likely point you to the aquifers sprawling for millions of miles underground, like the Great Artesian Basin in Australia, or the Ogallala Aquifer in the United States, or else to the glaciers and ice caps concentrated in Greenland and Antarctica, which are estimated to contain 70% of the world’s fresh water. But there’s another large and reliable source of fresh water available: the atmosphere.
Amid massive downsizing at DOE, power administrators are deemed 'essential'

1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

In February, at the peak of Elon Musk’s layoff-spree at the federal government, the Trump administration laid off hundreds of power grid workers, including dispatchers, transmission schedulers, field workers, and real time traders.