data centers

Echo Vice President Ella Nilsen joined host Jon Powers on CleanCapital’s Experts Only Podcast to talk energy affordability, data center demand, distributed energy and how the industry can sharpen its messaging.

Clean energy is going all-in on powering AI. Voters still see renewables as part of the data center solution, but the warning signs are growing.

Picked up pieces on permitting reform, the Senate map, Newsom and Pritzker at Climate Week, and Josh Siegel's move to Punchbowl.

Utility bills are rising nationwide, and renters have the fewest options to fight back against costs hitting red and blue states alike.

Echo's new VP Ella Nilsen spent five years covering climate and energy at CNN. She talks with Chris Moyer about her move into public affairs, why energy affordability has become a defining political issue, and what clean energy leaders get wrong when they stop telling their own story.

Martin Heinrich already leads Senate Democrats on energy policy. Now that New Mexico is voting fourth in the 2028 presidential primary, his influence over clean energy, water and public lands is about to grow even further.

Qcells is betting $2.5 billion on a new Georgia factory to bring solar manufacturing home. VP Scott Moskowitz on building a domestic supply chain and what the industry is fighting for now that the IRA tax credits are largely gone.

As electricity demand surges and states respond with moratoriums, rate classes, and consumption taxes, the fight over data centers is really a fight over whether clean energy wins the AI buildout.

Geothermal has the technology and the demand. What it's missing is a clear path to financing the early, expensive step of proving a site actually works. Mike O'Connor, director of the newly formed Mountain West Geothermal Consortium, explains why that early testing phase is the industry's biggest hurdle, and what the four-state consortium is doing about it.