Alexander C. Kaufman
Alexander C. Kaufman is an award-winning journalist who has covered energy and climate change for more than a decade. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Heatmap, Canary Media, Sherwood News, HuffPost, and elsewhere, and he writes the Substack newsletter Field Notes. His reporting has traversed four continents, with dispatches from the Brazilian Amazon to Greenland’s ice sheet, Mongolia’s frigid steppe to the Philippines’ mothballed nuclear plant.
A fourth-generation New Yorker, he lives in southern Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Reach him via his website, and subscribe to his newsletter at kaufman.substack.com.
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Google backs restart of NextEra’s defunct Iowa nuclear plant
The deal comes as the Trump administration inks a megadeal with Westinghouse.
Alexander C. KaufmanOct 28, 2025 -
Meta is buying green ironmaker Electra’s first EACs
And the startup also inked deals with Nucor, Toyota, and Interfer Edelstahl.
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After closing coal plants, Idaho Power is the rare utility cutting rates
The utility asked regulators to lower electricity rates in Oregon, even as its peers raise them — and Trump pushes coal as the solution.
Alexander C. KaufmanOct 20, 2025 -
Amazon plans to triple the size of debut X-energy nuclear plant
The nearly 1-gigawatt Cascade Advanced Energy Facility could transform the Pacific Northwest.
Alexander C. KaufmanOct 16, 2025 -
EEI: US utilities are planning record capital expenditures
The trade group found that utilities are set to spend $1.1 trillion between now and 2029.
Alexander C. KaufmanOct 14, 2025 -
Hyperscalers give PJM a counterproposal on load flexibility
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft team up with Calpine, Constellation, and Talen.
Alexander C. KaufmanOct 8, 2025 -
In coal-addicted Poland, partisan politics throttle geothermal’s growth
Could the fast-growing market for American LNG be a market for startups like Zanskar?
Alexander C. KaufmanOct 6, 2025 -
Deep Fission’s stock market debut comes with questions
The microreactor startup is joining the trend of nuclear companies IPO-ing with a SPAC deal.
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PJM forecasts need for 5 GW of load flexibility by 2030
The nation’s largest grid is trying to encourage load curtailment as load forecasts spike.
Alexander C. KaufmanSep 19, 2025 -
Nuclear waste startup Deep Isolation inks a deal with a major federal contractor
Exclusive: The waste disposal company will license its borehole technology to Navarro Research and Engineering.
Alexander C. KaufmanSep 18, 2025
