Lucia Tian says meeting rising power demand from AI will require more than wind, solar, and batteries. At Google, she’s working to scale geothermal, nuclear, and carbon capture, and use the company’s role as a major power buyer to advance new energy solutions. Read more: https://bit.ly/4b2fqxi

New episode of Catalyst: Shayle Kann talks with Carlos Araque, CEO of Quaise Energy, about the frontier of super-hot geothermal. The idea: drill up to 12 miles to reach ~800°F rock — unlocking 10x the power of traditional geothermal wells. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3Nm0EJQ

Amperon and Latitude Intelligence surveyed 20 IPPs to understand how they're managing market uncertainty. Download the white paper to unpack the 3 main challenges and opportunities for IPPs: www.latitudemedia.com/resources/th...

Battery storage deployment across the East Coast and Midwest is lagging behind other regions due to transmission constraints, interconnection delays, and regulatory barriers that favor fossil generation, slowing grid flexibility gains. Full story: https://bit.ly/4aMzxAI

A former rooftop solar installer has rebranded his company, shifting from installation to a software-first model aimed at reducing soft costs in the industry. Full story here: https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/this-former-installer-wants-to-take-rooftop-solar-into-its-carvana-era/

Trump’s opposition to offshore wind projects has stalled bipartisan efforts to reform federal energy permitting, with some oil and gas lobbyists now saying the wind fight is undercutting broader reform goals. Full story: https://bit.ly/4rNOEA0

New Orleans community groups turned a utility settlement into a citywide virtual power plant program. The City Council approved a plan to install batteries at about 1,500 homes and up to 250 community institutions to strengthen grid resilience. Full story: https://bit.ly/4cn3dpl

Next week: Get an exclusive look inside Crux's new analysis of the 2025 clean energy finance market and the outlook for 2026. 📝 Register now: www.latitudemedia.com/events/was-2... 🗓️ March 5 @ 1:30 pm ET / 10:30 am PT @stephenlacey.bsky.social

Renew Home's Jeff Gleeson, Chief Product Officer, and Kristoffer Donhowe, Product Architecture Lead, outline how personalized shifting is already delivering 4 GW of flexible capacity and customer value. Read their commentary on Latitude: www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-gri...

Amperon and Latitude Intelligence conducted a survey of 20 IPPs that revealed how the time-tested strategy of balancing risk and return is at a crossroads. Download the white paper to see the 3 key challenges and opportunities for IPPs ➡️ www.latitudemedia.com/resources/th...

This week, Heron Power announced a $140M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz. Founder/CEO Drew Baglino and Shayle Kann explore how solid-state transformers can turn the grid into a highly optimized machine. Listen now: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

Form Energy has long dominated the long-duration energy storage market. But recent technical milestones from startups like Ore Energy and Noon Energy suggest that the market is maturing. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-rac...

Today on Open Circuit: Are investors losing faith in the AI infrastructure boom? The team breaks down trends in capital flows, valuation pressures, and where investor confidence is shifting as AI demand grows but returns remain uncertain. 📽️ Full video: youtu.be/ArhEMZuLWqw?...

I'm gearing up to talk to Jim Kapsis of the Ad Hoc Group for tomorrow's Latitude Dispatch. Have any questions about what utilities learned -- or should have learned -- from Winter Storm Fern? Send em my way at [email protected], or via DM. Be there, 1pm ET! 🔌💡 @latitudemedia.bsky.social

On Catalyst today: Paul Segal of LS Power, sheds light on PJM and ERCOT as they navigate a capacity rollercoaster. The conversation unpacks what’s driving the volatility and what it means for power markets ahead. 🎧 Listen here: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

Connected with @shaylekann.bsky.social in episode of @latitudemedia.bsky.social Catalyst on edge computing. Will AI move to the edge? Depends on latency, model size, power. Inference close to users is sensible. But training will need gigascale datacenters. www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

Clean energy finance beat expectations in 2025: record lending, $42B in tax credit transfers, and resilient investors despite uncertainty. What’s driving the momentum into 2026? Join @CruxClimate on March 5 from 1:30–2:30 pm ET and learn more. Register: www.latitudemedia.com/events/was-2...

Cedric Van den Haute of Shoals Technologies explores why direct current is gaining ground across next-generation energy systems — and what it means for solar-plus-storage integration, data center efficiency, and project economics. www.latitudemedia.com/news/dc-arch...

This week on Open Circuit: Is geothermal nearing a breakout moment? The team explores why the resource is gaining traction + factors that could help move geothermal from niche to mainstream in the clean energy mix. 📽️ Full video podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2u...

Google VP Partha Ranganathan pushes back on AI energy doom: "Some claims are sensationalized." His team's innovations including custom chips, liquid cooling, and AI optimizing AI, show a different path forward. 🎧 Listen now on Where the Internet Lives: www.latitudemedia.com/news/how-goo...

Today on Catalyst: Shayle Kann and former DOE nuclear official Katy Huff break down what it really takes to bring new nuclear reactors to market, why mid-2026 targets are aggressive, and which milestones actually matter. 🎧 Listen here: www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-pat...

Utilities are being asked to deliver a grid that never falters — even as extreme weather, load growth, and aging infrastructure push systems to their limits. That expectation has a name: invisible resiliency. Read more: www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-cos...

🎧 This week on Open Circuit: PJM market reform, virtual power plants, and the politics shaping cheaper, more reliable electricity. Watch the full video podcast here: youtu.be/LRMeQ-gni1E

Batteries helped ERCOT survive Winter Storm Fern. TAEBA Executive Director Matthew Boms talked with @latitudemedia.bsky.social about why batteries are such a game-changer: www.latitudemedia.com/news/armed-w...

Shayle Kann talks with David Energy CEO James McGinniss about the rise of permissionless DERs—plug-in batteries and solar that skip complex installs and permits, cutting costs and expanding access. 🎧 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

Join us for "Proving VPPs can deliver: Moving from skepticism to grid-scale trust" with EnergyHub, Duke Energy Corporation, and Latitude Media. 📅 Friday, February 6th from 1:00-2:00 pm ET. Can't join live? Register for the recording. www.latitudemedia.com/events/provi...

This week on Open Circuit recorded live at #PRF26: A “five-alarm fire” for the grid: rising outages, tighter reserves, and growing reliability risks. 🎧 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

Pt. 2: Nat Bullard and Shayle Kann break down additional 2026 energy trends — from ongoing solar cost declines and global oil oversupply to what’s driving the current startup funding slump across energy tech. 🎧 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

2025 threw curveballs at energy — surging load, shifting policy, tight capital. Stephen Lacey talks with Tom Burton of Mintz covering the renewable shakeout, data centers as energy infrastructure, permitting reform, and navigating uncertainty. 🎧 Listen: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

⚡ Latitude Media talks grid resilience in a recent article, discussing the role of extreme weather events and data center development in the rise of utility resiliency plans. ➡️ Read more: https://ow.ly/iW7l50XXf9x #TXenergy #OKenergy #energyefficiency #energysky

This week on Open Circuit: Meta’s 6.6 GW nuclear push to power AI data centers — we discuss what’s real, what’s aspirational, and what it signals about who controls power in the AI era. 🎧 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

This week on Catalyst: @nathanielbullard.com and @shaylekann.bsky.social break down 2026 energy trends: gas turbine backlogs, Texas’ exploding load queue, and China’s accelerating electrification. 🎧 Listen: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

AI, data centers, EVs & DERs are reshaping the grid. Join us and @gridbeyond.com for Energy Trends 2026: Caught in the Crosswinds to see what’s next. Register here (recording included): www.latitudemedia.com/events/energ...

In this Where the Internet Lives interview, MIT researcher Andrew McAfee explains why AI is a transformative general-purpose technology and why its benefits may outweigh concerns about energy use. Read more: www.latitudemedia.com/news/wtil-wh... 🎧 Listen here: datacenters.google/discover-mor...

In this new episode, Stephen Lacey, Jigar Shah, and new co-host Caroline Golin dig into how the AI era is reshaping power markets: from battles over capacity and co-located energy to the implications of Google’s acquisition of Intersect Power. 🎧 Listen Now: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

Can #VPPs perform like traditional generation? Join @latitudemedia.bsky.social's Frontier Forum as Seth Frader-Thompson and Duke Energy unpack the Huels Test and VPP Maturity Model — and what it takes to earn operator trust. Register: www.latitudemedia.com/events/provi...

Ian Rountree, founder and partner at Cantos, explains why he avoids selling tech to incumbents and flags some curveball startups. Shayle Kann and Ian explore how this applies to the current landscape of hardware and industrial startups. Listen now: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

Virtual power plants (#VPPs) are moving beyond one-off demand response and into everyday grid operations. EnergyHub president Seth Frader-Thompson explores why maturity now matters more than scale in @latitudemedia.bsky.social: www.latitudemedia.com/news/vpps-ar... "

A White House official told Latitude Media in an email that the administration is “closely looking” at Venezuela’s critical minerals and possible rare earth elements “in conjunction with the private sector.” Read more: www.latitudemedia.com/news/white-h...

Michigan regulators approved DTE Energy’s 19-year, 1.4 GW power deal for the Stargate data center (part of the $500B OpenAI–Oracle–SoftBank venture.) The deal boosts DTE’s load ~25% + signals a key 2025 trend: utilities winning big from the AI data center boom. www.latitudemedia.com/news/what-th...

One year into Trump 2.0 and stamped with a new name, it’s time to find out whether LPO — or EDF, as we must now call it — can actually be leveraged to put points on the board for the administration’s energy priorities. Full story by @maeveallsup.bsky.social: www.latitudemedia.com/news/dont-ca...

As 2025 comes to a close, we’ve rounded up a sampler of the year’s best episodes — from record-breaking capacity auctions and advances in grid flexibility to vertically integrated residential batteries. www.latitudemedia.com/news/five-ca...

Founder and president of @energyhub.bsky.social op-ed argues virtual power plants are growing up: evolving from one-off grid events into everyday grid muscle. As batteries, EVs, and smart controls scale, VPPs are delivering the flexibility operators need. www.latitudemedia.com/news/vpps-ar...

In her final Open Circuit episode, Katherine Hamilton reflects on a 40-year career in energy as she steps away from both the industry and the podcast. She shares the lessons that shaped her perspective on the grid, policy, and markets. 🎧 Full Episode: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

In this Catalyst episode, @shaylekann.bsky.social talks with Dr. Ben Lee, professor at UPenn, about whether AI inference will move from hyperscale data centers to the edge — and what that shift means for the future of AI infrastructure. 🎧 Listen here: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

Ford and other manufacturers are pivoting from EV-only battery production to stationary energy storage, reports Bianca Giacobone — helping meet rising demand from data centers and the grid while putting underused capacity to work. 🔋 Read more: www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-ev-...

On the latest Green Blueprint, Cindy D. Taff, CEO of Sage Geosystems, discusses using next-gen geothermal to turn the earth into long-duration energy storage, and deliver reliable clean baseload power. 🎧 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.latitudemedia.com/news/green-b...

Elon Musk’s “Colossus” supercluster in Memphis has become the AI industry’s benchmark for speed to power, albeit at a steep environmental cost. 🔎 Full analysis from @maeveallsup.bsky.social: www.latitudemedia.com/news/how-xai...

The surge was mainly driven by large corporate transactions like Constellation's $29B acquisition of Calpine in January and NRG Energy's $12.5B purchase of LS Power, both of which expanded the major companies’ gas portfolios. 📰 by @ceboudreau: www.latitudemedia.com/news/power-s...

⏰ Last chance: Early bird pricing ends TODAY. Register by midnight PT to lock in the lowest rate — $1,295 (save $200). Join the decision-makers shaping the future of grid resilience at #PRF26 📍 Houston | Jan 21–23, 2026 www.resilience-forum.com/prfevent/reg...