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In this episode of The Green Blueprint, Lara Pierpoint chats with Phil Goodman from @microsoft.com on building CDR offtake agreements, growing the market, and Microsoft’s most promising carbon removal partnerships.

🎧 Listen here: www.latitudemedia.com/news/green-b...
December 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fervo energy just raised a $500M Series E: a major vote of confidence in next-gen geothermal. As AI and data centers drive demand for 24/7 clean power, investors are betting geothermal can deliver the firm, carbon-free energy the grid needs.

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December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Grid hardening isn't one-size-fits-all. Kumar Chandran of @SandCElectric joins utility leaders at #PRF26 on Jan 22 to break down what's working in extreme weather hardening.

Navigating wildfire, storm, or heat stress? This is your conversation.
📍 www.resilience-forum.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The energy story behind AI is becoming impossible to ignore. This op-ed piece from Stephen Empedocles digs into why meeting AI’s demand for power (with firm, flexible, domestic infrastructure) may be climate tech’s most important frontier.

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December 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
AWS is urging the power sector to “fail fast” on AI — pushing utilities to run small pilots, learn quickly, and drop what doesn’t work before scaling.

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December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Filings are in for FERC’s proposed rulemaking on standardizing large-load interconnection. Nearly 200 comments poured in from hyperscalers, utilities, regulators, + reliability authorities.

Core tension: AI’s demand for speed vs. the grid’s need for stability.

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November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A new IMM report finds demand response and data-center “flexible load” may be over-credited, raising doubts about who can actually deliver reliability.

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November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The DOE has restructured. The Trump admin appears to have cut:
Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
Grid Deployment Office
Office of State & Community Energy Programs
Office of Federal Energy Management Program
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November 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Most data centers only use 30-40% of their allocated power.

Hammerhead AI emerged from stealth today with $10M in seed funding and a pitch to unlock the "slack power" inside data centers.

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November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Scott Clavenna unpacks the the load growth momentum through the lens of utilities' Q3 earnings. Trends across investment in new generation, large load tariffs, and flexibility signal a clear shift underway.

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November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
There are two lists of award terminations circulating Washington, D.C. Here’s a compilation of both — with a searchable dataset.

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October 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🚀 The U.S. nuclear comeback is real: shuttered reactors like Three Mile Island (now Crane Clean Energy Center), Palisades (Michigan), and Duane Arnold (Iowa) are set to restart. Listen here: www.latitudemedia.com/news/restart...
September 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
DOE’s Puerto Rico portfolio is currently being led by Katie Jereza, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Electricity. Jereza’s Senate confirmation hearing takes place today.

Link to story in comments.
May 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Data centers have been turning to microgrids for faster power. Some data center developers are looking to microgrids as both resilience solutions and assets that could supplement – even substitute – for a grid connection.
May 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This new mini brief from Banyan outlines the current state of project finance in clean energy, the value that standardization brings to lenders, and practical steps to building standards through digital transformation.

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March 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In its 2025 integrated resource plan, submitted on Friday to the state Public Service Commission, Georgia Power stated: “new and expanding economic development projects in Georgia have progressed more rapidly and on a larger scale than in previous years.”
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February 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thank you everyone who joined us for Transition-AI 2024 yesterday! We'll have lots more reflections and follow-up in the days to come, but here are a few highlights from the day.
December 4, 2024 at 2:06 PM