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

RIP Norm(s), in CDR, American energy, and Cheers

1 month ago | news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Maeve Allsup

“It'll be between a scalpel and a sledgehammer,” was how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House in the US, described how his Republican majority would approach stripping clean energy programmes in the Inflation Reduction Act. Based on what happened last night, it’s more like a wrecking ball. Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
In Georgia, stakeholders still can’t agree on data center load growth numbers

1 month ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

The Georgia Public Service Commission is pushing back against Georgia Power’s latest load forecast, citing concerns about underlying assumptions, model specifications, and input data that staff say may lead to overestimations of demand. In January, Georgia Power submitted its 2025 integrated resource plan, projecting up to 9.4 gigawatts of new load in the next decade — a number commission staff said represented growth nearly three times faster than historical trends.
AES and Meta sign long-term PPAs to deliver 650 MW of solar capacity in Texas and Kansas

1 month ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

PRESS RELEASE: The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) announced that it has entered into two long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) to support Meta’s data centers with 650 MW of solar projects that AES is bringing online in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) market. “AES is proud to partner with Meta to deliver reliable and affordable renewable energy that supports their data center growth and ambitious sustainability goals,” said Andrés Gluski, AES President and Chief Executive Officer.
As DOE reviews $15 billion in awards, LPO may again be on the chopping block

1 month ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

In the first week of May, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told a House committee that his agency was not withholding or freezing any funding, and had not canceled any projects to date. It was a statement that Democrats in the committee pushed back on, even going so far as to accuse Wright of “outright lying” to Congress during the hearing.
One year inside Mainspring’s data center pipeline

1 month ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

Mainspring Energy, the Stanford spin-out building fuel-agnostic generators, will bring its first artificial intelligence data center online this summer. The large project is designed to scale up to hundreds of megawatts in total generator capacity — and is also the company’s first full-scale commercial deployment with a greenfield data center site.
Is LPO getting another new director?

1 month ago | latitudemedia.com | Maeve Allsup

Energy Secretary Chris Wright may be set to appoint the Trump administration’s third Loan Programs Office director in four months. Latitude Media has learned that Wright is looking to fire Lane Genatowski, who has led the office for roughly six weeks after stepping in at the end of March. Genatowski replaced John Sneed, who served as LPO director for two years during the first Trump administration, and who reportedly agreed to return in a transitional capacity in January.
The unexpected energy victims of Congress’ budget proposal

1 month 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

1 month 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 month 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 month 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.