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Scott Clavenna

@scottclavenna.bsky.social
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Co-founder of Latitude Media and watcher of climatetech news

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lisa martine jenkins @lisamartinejenkins.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I spent time this week parsing the second list of (potential) DOE award cancellations that has been circulating DC, and it occurred to me that others would probably appreciate a clean, searchable dataset. So I made one, for @latitudemedia.bsky.social : 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/which-a...
Chart of the number of awards DOE is poised to potentially cancel (647), and the funds awarded (nearly $24 billion), broken down by office
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lisa martine jenkins @lisamartinejenkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Yesterday, Russ Vought tweeted out that DOE is canceling nearly $8 billion in clean energy funding. Today, @latitudemedia.bsky.social @maeveallsup.bsky.social obtained the list of all 321 projects that are having their awards pulled. 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/scoop-t...
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SCOOP: These are the 321 awards DOE is canceling
All of the awards, totaling $7.5 billion, are for projects in blue states.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/07/2025
get your friends and gather round the wurlitzer on a saturday night and listen to me on this pod cast open.spotify.com/episode/4bOh...
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Latitude Media @latitudemedia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A decision to shut down the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations could be coming as early as this week, sources familiar with the matter have told Latitude Media. Here's what that means: www.latitudemedia.com/news/what-it...
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What it means to cut the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
OCED has enjoyed bipartisan support, and fills a critical gap in the American technology ecosystem.
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Latitude Media @latitudemedia.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
After two months on the job, Trump appointee John Sneed will leave the Department of Energy on Friday. www.latitudemedia.com/news/trumps-...
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Trump’s appointee is out at the DOE Loan Programs Office
After two months on the job, John Sneed will leave the Department of Energy on Friday.
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Stephen Lacey @stephenlacey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Are we in an AI energy bubble? Probably. Our CEO, @scottclavenna.bsky.social, who covered the fiber bubble extensively earlier in his career, has a breakdown of how infrastructure bubbles form, and what to watch in the AI race:
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Are we in an AI-energy bubble?
Examining the evidence — and why the power markets may make the infrastructure boom less dramatic than it could be.
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Latitude Media @latitudemedia.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
With each passing week, it’s getting harder to square the discourse around gas as a generation source for the AI data center market. @scottclavenna.bsky.social reads the tea leaves in his latest commentary for Latitude's AI-Energy Nexus newsletter: www.latitudemedia.com/news/where-d...
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Where does gas fit in the puzzle of powering AI?
Gas is shrinking as a share of power on the grid, even as developers announce new deals for data centers.
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Latitude Media @latitudemedia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Engie is withdrawing a major gas project from consideration for a Texas program that provides low-interest loans for new or expanded dispatchable energy generation, citing equipment procurement delays: www.latitudemedia.com/news/engies-...
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Engie’s pulled project highlights the worsening economics of gas
Due to “equipment procurement constraints,” the Perseus gas peaker plant is no longer in the running for a slice of the $5 billion Texas Energy Fund.
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Latitude Media @latitudemedia.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Utilities are using AI to rewire how they work, evolving their leadership, teams, and strategies to deliver transformation, David Groarke, managing director for Indigo Advisory Group, writes for Latitude Media: www.latitudemedia.com/news/how-uti...
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How utilities are designing and embedding AI operating models
Utilities are using AI to rewire how they work, evolving their leadership, teams, and strategies to deliver transformation.
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We dug in and covered this today: www.latitudemedia.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump and Musk are playing ‘Russian roulette’ with the Northwest power grid
“It is clear that these impacts are all top down from the Trump-Musk team,” says former BPA administrator.
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Latitude Media @latitudemedia.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Trump administration today is laying off most probationary employees at the Department of Energy, sources confirmed to Latitude Media. Behind the scenes, extensive changes have been happening, even before today’s layoffs. www.latitudemedia.com/news/mass-la...
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Mass layoffs bring an end to DOE's 'weird, quiet limbo'
The Trump transition has brought DOGE inside the agency offices, and put 20-somethings in charge of screening all department communications.
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National Consumer Law Center @nclc4consumers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau takes the side of ordinary people and honest businesses," said Richard Dubois @nclc4consumers.bsky.social. "Without it we could return to the days before the 2008 financial crisis." #ProtectConsumers #DefendCFPB www.nclc.org/lawsuit-chal...
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Illegal Effort to Shut Down CFPB
National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), National Consumer Law Center, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Virginia Poverty Law Center, CFPB Employee Association, and ...
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Latitude Media @latitudemedia.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
AI, and how its powered, is in a moment of transition. A mix of intense competition with China, urgency to deploy data centers at scale, & widespread frustration with the length of interconnection queues continues to fuel a move toward on-site generation. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-ris...
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The rise of on-site generation to power AI
Artificial intelligence, and how its powered, is in a moment of transition.
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Open Circuit Podcast @open-circuit.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
As clean energy faces its biggest test yet, @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, @cleangridview.bsky.social, and @stephenlacey.bsky.social are reuniting for their newest project: Open Circuit. 🧵 (1/5)
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@stephenlacey.bsky.social , @jigarshahdc.bsky.social , and @cleangridview.bsky.social are back. There’s never been a better time to get these three behind the mic to talk all things clean energy and the future of the climate tech revolution. Let’s go!!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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The energy transition, decoded
Podcast Episode · Open Circuit · Trailer · 7m
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Catalyst w/ Shayle Kann @catalyst-pod.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Out today: @nathanielbullard.com's 200-page slide deck with data from across the energy transition. In part one of their two-part conversation, cherry-picked the most interesting slides and sat down with Nat to unpack them. Listen now: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...
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2025 trends: aerosols, oil demand, and carbon removal
Nat Bullard is back at it again, releasing a massive deck on the most important trends in decarbonization.
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
My latest, on DeepSeek and its possible impacts on power markets and forecasts www.latitudemedia.com/news/does-de...
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Does DeepSeek call the data center boom into question?
We explore a few outcomes for the power market, which is already distorted by AI demand.
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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What a ‘pause’ on IRA funds really means
With a 90-day review period, the Trump administration “threads a needle” between campaign promises and angering allies on the Hill.
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lisa martine jenkins @lisamartinejenkins.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
And finally, from @scottclavenna.bsky.social: One of the year's biggest stories was the AI boom, and the many ways in which it upended things from utilities and power markets. www.latitudemedia.com/news/a-dizzy...
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A dizzying year at the AI energy nexus
In 2024, load growth from AI changed how both tech companies and utilities plan for the future.
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lisa martine jenkins @lisamartinejenkins.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Related: We have an entire newsletter dedicated to to "The AI-Energy Nexus," which is a wonderful resource, written by the Latitude team (esp. @biancagiacobone.bsky.social, @stephenlacey.bsky.social, and @scottclavenna.bsky.social). Link to sign up is here: www.latitudemedia.com/newsletter/
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Newsletter
The Latitude newsletter features industry news on cutting-edge climate tech and the deals, policies, and market factors shaping the energy transition.
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This is a remarkable example of how AI data center power demand can reshape utility business models. www.latitudemedia.com/news/to-meet...
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To get data centers online, one Virginia co-op is proposing a new business model
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative is bracing for data center builds — and is getting creative to avoid passing the risk to its members.
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Great new podcast
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Almost sold out! This is going to be great.
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Latitude Media @latitudemedia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"I see geothermal as that next segue of utilizing all of the learnings from the oil and gas industry" - Cindy Taff, Sage Geosystems CEO Did Trump pick a geothermal ally in fracking CEO Chris Wright? #energysky #geothermal www.latitudemedia.com/news/chris-w...
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The geothermal industry has a potential ally in Chris Wright | Latitude Media
Trump's new energy secretary is a fracking CEO. What does that mean for enhanced geothermal?
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Incentivising behind the meter generation should be a good way to address data center power demand www.latitudemedia.com/news/pg-e-is...
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PG&E is laying the groundwork for flexible data center interconnection | Latitude Media
Exclusive: The utility has been piloting a way of getting new load online faster — but it’s proving tricky.
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
We’ve made our way to Bluesky!
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Carbon Reduction Capital (the new name of Cohn Reznick), finds PPA prices were up in 2H 2023, impacted by a higher cost of capital, higher capital expenses, and cheaper natural gas prices. www.latitudemedia.com/news/report-...
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Report: Energy prices were up in the second half of 2023 | Latitude Media
Data collected by Carbon Reduction Capital indicates offtake rates for solar are greatly impacted by IRA bonuses.
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
We look at the possible impacts of Basel III on renewable energy project finance. When it comes to tax equity financing, industry is arguing that Basel III will drive up capital costs unnecessarily, and doesn't reflect the low risks of tax equity accurately. www.latitudemedia.com/news/clean-e...
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Why is clean energy capital getting pricier? | Latitude Media
Impending changes to capitalization requirements in Basel III rules could stall development — but deal structure is already adapting.
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Scott Clavenna @scottclavenna.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
We get into the future of the voluntary carbon market on this week's Catalyst podcast. It's here to stay, so lots of people trying to make it work - www.latitudemedia.com/news/a-carbo...
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A carbon removal expert on how to fix carbon markets | Latitude Media
“The problems with the traditional system have been made so evident and so loud that buyers can't look the other way anymore."
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