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

The unexpected energy victims of Congress’ budget proposal

1 day ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

The idea that Congressional Republicans would employ “a scalpel and not a sledgehammer” when it came to the Trump campaign promise to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act has been a way for the clean energy industry to self-soothe over the last nine months. It emerged from something House Speaker Mike Johnson said in September of last year, and has endured through the election, the lame duck period, and the arrival of the new GOP majority in Congress.
In Trump 1.0 she buried a grid study. Now, she may lead electricity policy

6 days ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

Despite clear instructions from federal courts, the Trump administration is continuing to withhold legally obligated funding from certain energy and grid programs, including $365 million committed late last year to build backup power at hospitals in Puerto Rico. In an effort supported by the island’s governor, Jenniffer Gonález-Colón, the administration has spent several weeks working to redirect funding allocated for the Programa de Comunidades Resilientes.
Rewiring America faces Trump-induced layoffs

1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

Rewiring America, a nonprofit that works to promote affordable home electrification, said today it will lay off 28% of its workforce as a direct result of the Trump administration’s refusal to disburse federal grant funds.
Inside the political chess game of funding backup power for Puerto Rico

1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

Puerto Rico’s new governor, Trump ally Jenniffer González-Colón, ran and won on a platform to modernize and stabilize the island’s fragile power grid. When she entered the race in 2024 against an incumbent governor from her own pro-statehood party, González-Colón pledged to oust Luma Energy, the private company that manages the island’s transmission and distribution.
As Congress takes up the budget, 45Q may be a bellwether for IRA cuts

1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

As Republicans haggle over how to fund President Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” it’s becoming increasingly clear that there isn’t consensus in the party as to what taking a “scalpel” to energy credits — as House Speaker Mike Johnson said he planned to do last fall — should look like. Last week, 38 House Republicans signed a letter calling for the full repeal of all energy tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act.
How is domestic cleantech manufacturing faring after 100 days of Trump?

1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

In the first quarter of 2025, U.S. companies announced $9.4 billion in new manufacturing projects, despite the ongoing uncertainty around federal policy, shifting tariffs, and global trade tensions. According to the latest report from the Clean Investment Monitor, a joint project of Rhodium Group and MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Q1’s manufacturing announcements were a 47% increase over Q4 2024, though a 23% drop compared to the same quarter last year.
Could Trump’s tariffs benefit advanced manufacturers?

1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

As uncertainty over Trump’s global tariffs continues, clean energy manufacturers are being forced to reimagine supply chains, delay key project finance decisions — and potentially pivot how and where key components are made. But for advanced manufacturing — which features more flexible, modular components, often integrates digital tools and artificial intelligence, and which is largely electric — the tariffs may provide a window to industrialization.
100 days of chaos at the Department of Energy

2 weeks ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency are now behind us. The last 14 weeks have been a tumult for federal agencies, as the new administration has moved quickly to make good on its promise to massively downsize the federal workforce. While the Department of Energy and its new secretary, Chris Wright, have largely stayed out of mainstream discourse, a quiet but dramatic transformation has been taking place.
Utilidata and Nvidia are eyeing smart meters for AI servers

2 weeks ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

Energy software company Utilidata announced today it has secured a $60.3 million Series C. The money will be dedicated largely to scaling Karman, a distributed artificial intelligence platform it developed with co-investor Nvidia. Karman is built on a custom Nvidia module, and can be embedded into devices connected to the grid.
Manufacturing transmission tech in the US is getting harder

2 weeks ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

A year ago, Jason Huang was pretty sure his advanced conductor company was going to build its second U.S. factory in Michigan. The company — TS Conductor — even applied for and won a grant from the Department of Energy’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, to construct the facility on the shores of Lake Erie. But then, last summer, TS Conductor visited South Carolina for one last look at alternatives, and changed its mind. South Carolina rolled out the red carpet treatment.