Lisa Martine Jenkins
Lisa Martine Jenkins is Latitude Media’s editor. She was previously a reporter for Protocol and Morning Consult, and her work has appeared in Heatmap, The Guardian, and Civil Eats, among others. In 2017, she was the Overseas Press Club Foundation’s Stan Swinton Fellow, placed at The Associated Press in Mexico City. Earlier in her career, she worked in production for both the Marketplace Morning Report radio program and San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club.
Lisa has an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she studied energy and environmental policy. While there, she conducted research on both rural electrification in Myanmar and the impact of sea level rise on nuclear spent fuel storage; the latter was published in Energy Policy. She has a B.A. from UC Berkeley.
She lives in Brooklyn, and is originally from the Bay Area. You can find more of her work at lisamartinejenkins.com.
Get in touch with Lisa at lisa@latitudemedia.com, or securely on Signal at lmj.5709.
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Gov. Shapiro to utilities: ‘The 20th century utility model is broken’
Shapiro said his administration will oppose rate case requests that don’t observe certain best practices for affordability.
Lisa Martine JenkinsMay 1, 2026 -
The grid’s physical realities are setting in for the data center pipeline
Developers have announced 780 GW of projects. But the barriers to actually building are getting higher by the day.
Lisa Martine JenkinsApr 27, 2026 -
‘Thousands of Hoover Dams:’ Utilities request to spend $1.4 trillion through 2030
Charles Hua of PowerLines on energy affordability, regulator power, and the influence of data centers.
Lisa Martine JenkinsApr 15, 2026 -
Xcel’s tricky work of building the first utility-owned VPP
Critics lament the novel Minnesota program’s design, arguing it doesn’t measure up to what the utility promised.
Lisa Martine JenkinsApr 9, 2026 -
Energy industry greets White House data center pledge with a shrug
The “ratepayer protection pledge,” signed by major tech companies on Wednesday, has no enforcement mechanism.
Lisa Martine JenkinsMar 6, 2026 -
With Form Energy deal, Google’s clean transition tariff is growing up
But the agreement, via Minnesota's Xcel Energy, is much more complicated than backing one massive battery project.
Lisa Martine JenkinsFeb 25, 2026 -
Ormat deepens its data center power play with Google deal
The hyperscaler’s second-ever deal under the “clean transition tariff” is with one of the biggest conventional geothermal players.
Lisa Martine JenkinsFeb 19, 2026 -
Is fixing transmission in the US a Sisyphean task?
Planning is improving — but as demand increases the looming reliability gap is still getting bigger.
Lisa Martine JenkinsFeb 5, 2026 -
The costs of ‘invisible resiliency’ for utilities
Utility failure is increasingly measured by how much customers have to think about its service.
Lisa Martine JenkinsJan 29, 2026 -
What the Texas grid has learned about resilience since Uri
The state’s utilities have spent five years patching holes exposed by the 2021 disaster. Now, they’re bracing for another ice storm.
Lisa Martine JenkinsJan 23, 2026
