Stephen Lacey
Stephen Lacey is the co-founder and executive editor of Latitude Media and the co-host of Open Circuit. He helps shape editorial coverage, live events, and creative partnerships. He’s a veteran journalist, editor, and producer who’s been running news teams and making audio programming about the clean energy transition for nearly two decades.
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Clean energy loves the permitting bill. Green groups hate it
A new federal permitting bill is a huge deal for clean energy. So why are environmental groups fighting it?
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Utilities and Big Tech lost trust. How can they earn it back?
From grid utilization to distributed batteries, a look at the new playbook for energy and data centers.
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Trump’s coal crusade is failing
The EPA is rolling back regulations, while the DOE takes a heavy-handed approach to keeping coal plants open. Is it backfiring?
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Power is caught in AI’s doom loop
As trust in AI collapses, the infrastructure to power it is getting pulled in.
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As midterms approach, electricity bills are on the ballot
As governors’ races hinge on electricity affordability, are regulators getting missed in the conversation?
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Did China outsmart America after the oil shock?
James Gutman on how China and America took very different approaches to the oil disruption. How will it reshape geopolitics?
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Data centers have a Texas-sized energy problem
As more states pause data centers, how will they use the opportunity to pass energy policy?
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A simple fix that could unlock the heat pump market
Is the key to home decarbonization cheaper and simpler than we thought?
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The off-grid data center fantasy
A new SemiAnalysis forecast shows a coming surge of off-grid data centers. Are the numbers realistic?
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Plug-in solar meets the grid crisis
Why Americans are bolting solar panels to their balconies, and what the July 4th heat wave revealed about mounting grid stress
