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1 week ago | latitudemedia.com | Lisa Martine Jenkins

Demand for gas is skyrocketing. In an era of new load growth caused by electrification, the onshoring of manufacturing, and a boom in data centers for artificial intelligence, gas has become the “first-choice technology to fill the impending gap,” the think tank RMI found in a new report, seen by Latitude Media before its publication today. For the rest of the decade, utilities and independent power providers are projected to double the recent rate of construction.

1 month ago | latitudemedia.com | Alexander C. Kaufman

Electricity demand is growing faster in the United States than it has in decades. As of last year, the country had more generation capacity in its interconnection queue than installed nationwide — meaning if every power project seeking a connection to the grid came online, the U.S. would have enough electricity for years to come. But wait times for those connections are only growing. It’s a problem Chris Ariante saw coming.

1 month 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.

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.

1 month 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.