What’s next for DOE’s Loan Programs Office?

Inside the competing forces shaping the next chapter of the LPO.

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For the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, the first nine months of the second Trump administration have been full of contradictions.

Project 2025, the conservative policy blueprint authored by the Heritage Foundation, calls for eliminating the office altogether, and the administration’s FY26 budget request is a mixed bag, with steep proposed cuts and limited new support. OBBB rewrote much of the LPO’s authority, and several conditional commitments have already been withdrawn. But last week, the office greenlit a major Biden-era project, a $1.6 billion transmission loan for AEP.

While the administration has yet to outline a decisive philosophy or investment strategy for LPO, recent activity out of the office may be an indicator as to its current health — and its future as a cornerstone of federal clean energy financing.

In this Latitude Dispatch with former LPO senior advisor Kyle Winslow, we’ll dig into the contradictions shaping the Trump-era LPO. Latitude founding reporter Maeve Allsup will examine:

The tension between the LPO’s current mandate and the limits of current budget authority, program guidance, and rulemakings

How LPO programs can be applied to critical minerals and grid infrastructure

The implications of supply chain, national security, and affordability pressures

Opportunities to revitalize — or reinvent — the LPO for a new era

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Maeve Allsup
Latitude Media

Maeve Allsup

Senior Reporter

Latitude Media

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Maeve Allsup is Latitude Media’s founding reporter. She was previously a tech reporter at Morning Brew, where she covered tech policy and regulation, as well as the EV industry. Earlier in her career she spent several years as a legal reporter, covering California’s courts for Bloomberg Industries, where she broke news about Activision Blizzard, Google, Uber, and others.
Before moving to California, Maeve lived in Santiago, Chile for several years where she created content for an international education company and worked as a freelance journalist.
Maeve studied International Relations at American University in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in environmental policy and conflict resolution. She is based in San Francisco.

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Kyle Winslow
Winslow & Co. Public Affairs LLC

Kyle Winslow

Principal

Winslow & Co. Public Affairs LLC

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Kyle Winslow brings over 15 years of experience in the energy government affairs, external affairs, communications, and public policy space at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), and work at the local government level and in the private sector. Kyle most recently served as Senior Advisor for Congressional Affairs as well as External Affairs Director at LPO, where he worked on matters of Congressional oversight, budget matters including the annual appropriations process, and implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. Prior to LPO, Kyle led EERE legislative affairs as Legislative Director, helped to establish the legislative affairs team at the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), and served as the Federal Policy Director for the clean transportation nonprofit, CALSTART. Kyle holds a B.A. from Bucknell University and an M.P.P. from George Washington University. After leaving DOE, Kyle started Winslow & Co. Public Affairs to provide public affairs consulting services to energy clients, and joined the nonprofit Constructive as a Senior Fellow. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three beagles.

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EVENT DETAILS

Friday, October 24

11:00AM – 12:00 PM ET

Latitude Dispatches bring attendees timely, crucial insights on breaking stories in the clean energy industry. Bring your questions for Latitude reporters, editors, and external experts, or submit them ahead of time to editors@latitudemedia.com.

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