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 [email protected], or securely on Signal at lmj.5709.
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How to deploy advanced transmission technologies
New research finds that deploying ATTs will require policy changes to get around a market structure that disincentivizes their deployment.
Lisa Martine JenkinsSep 18, 2024 -
The trouble with Exowatt’s ‘groundbreaking’ tech: We’ve seen it before
Exowatt says its energy tech is “unlike anything seen in history.” However, some are skeptical.
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A summer of ups and downs in the battery sector
In the last few months, some advanced battery companies have raked in the cash, while others have faltered.
Lisa Martine JenkinsSep 11, 2024 -
Will the data center boom boost carbon removal?
A Morgan Stanley report suggests that the proliferation of data centers could fuel demand for carbon removal.
Lisa Martine JenkinsSep 9, 2024 -
Biden’s rural electrification program may also help coops invest in DERMS
The White House is awarding $7.3 billion to rural electric cooperatives. But will any of them use it for distributed energy management?
Lisa Martine JenkinsSep 6, 2024 -
Data centers are booming, but for now the power grid ‘is not in danger’
A recent JLL report found that construction has leveled off — but planned-for capacity has nearly doubled to 22 gigawatts.
Lisa Martine JenkinsSep 3, 2024 -
The Midwest’s transmission backslide
An Illinois court reversed the state's approval for the Grain Belt Express, a blow that embodies the complex state of U.S. transmission.
Lisa Martine JenkinsAug 21, 2024 -
Portable battery startup Moxion is bankrupt. What happened?
The startup raised $100 million in 2022. But in 2024, things took a turn.
Lisa Martine JenkinsAug 16, 2024 -
Two years of the IRA: Triumphs and delays
As election season heats up, the Biden administration is broadcasting, and quantifying, the IRA’s impacts.
Lisa Martine JenkinsAug 16, 2024 -
With latest acquisition, Budderfly moves from DERs to VPPs
The commercial energy management company acquired Sunverge Energy’s DERMs platform.
Lisa Martine JenkinsAug 13, 2024
