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1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Bianca Giacobone

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, a team of researchers spend their days scouring the internet for vulnerable solar inverters and panels. These panels tend to be installed by well-meaning homeowners, looking to cut their energy bills and embrace renewables. They’re cheap and easy to buy online — but their security can be wonky, with authentications and passwords often set to the manufacturer default, if they’re used at all.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks ago | latitudemedia.com | Alexander C. Kaufman

Meta’s plans to build a data center complex in Louisiana is spurring new scrutiny of how little the tech industry is disclosing about the energy usage — and emissions — of these facilities. The $5-billion data center is poised to have an appetite for electricity nearly three times bigger than the total power demand from the city of New Orleans, such that the utility Entergy proposed building multiple massive new fossil gas plants to power it. Last week, Sen.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.