Stephen Lacey

2 months ago | latitudemedia.com | Stephen Lacey

Listen to the episode on: The business world is facing a tsunami of uncertainty. Across nearly every industry, investment is seizing up amid unpredictable tariffs and contradictory domestic policies. In this week’s episode of Open Circuit, we examine how this compounding uncertainty is impacting clean energy during a critical moment of spiking demand and rising costs. We dissect the signals from the market, revealing that despite the chaos, certain sectors are finding unexpected advantages.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

2 months ago | latitudemedia.com | Stephen Lacey |Maeve Allsup |Bianca Giacobone

President Trump reminds us constantly that he wants to bring back U.S. manufacturing. The vision is alluring: shuttered factories reopening, assembly lines humming — perhaps an American army of “millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones,” as the commerce secretary recently imagined. In Trump’s mind, there’s only one way to get there: tariffs.

2 months ago | latitudemedia.com | Stephen Lacey |Bianca Giacobone |Maeve Allsup |Scott Clavenna

Listen to the episode on: President Trump promised energy dominance. But his sweeping new tariffs are delivering the opposite – creating unprecedented uncertainty for every sector of the energy economy. Faced with a market in revolt, the president blinked. Just hours after his tariffs went into effect, he put a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, keeping a 10% baseline tariff and a 125% tariff on China.