katie brigham

@katie_brigham

climate tech reporter @heatmap_news | formerly @CNBC | mostly elsewhere: http://kbrigham.bsky.social

Joined October 2017

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Sep 23

a big ol' comprehensive how-to guide for DECARBONIZING YOUR LIFE, from the heatmap team! heatmap.news/decarbonize-yo…

katie_brigham's tweet card. A complete guide to making your everyday decisions count in the fight against climate change.

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jul 16

when determining whether AI will help save or destroy the planet, we often forget the 🐘 in the room: while there are myriad climate-positive applications of AI, fossil fuel giants are already using this tech to increase oil and gas production today heatmap.news/energy/microso…

katie_brigham's tweet card. Two former Microsoft employees have turned their frustration into an awareness campaign to hold tech companies accountable.

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · 22 h

are all these climate tech startups just data center startups now? lately, cleantech companies of all stripes are finding lucrative early deployment opportunties for building and powering AI data centers in a cleaner, more energy efficient manner heatmap.news/climate-tech/d…

katie_brigham's tweet card. Artificial intelligence wants the energy and has the money, and climate tech companies need buyers.

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jul 23

NEW: @AvalancheFusion, a startup building tabletop-sized fusion reactors, just landed a $10 million grant from Washington state, one of the largest government-led fusion investments to date heatmap.news/climate-tech/a…

katie_brigham's tweet card. The grant from Washington State will fund a facility where all kinds of fusion labs can run tests of their own.

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Heatmap News@heatmap_news · Jul 21

TOMORROW: Don't miss our virtual briefing featuring Heatmap's @katie_brigham, @latimes' @Sammy_Roth, @business' @HiMichelleMa, and @Fisch_Tank's @EricFischgrund on the challenges of climate reporting in a rapidly changing political and economic landscape.

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Robinson Meyer@robinsonmeyer · Jul 18

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has transformed US clean energy policy, gutting EV & solar/wind incentives. But it’s weirder than a straight repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act. Today at @heatmap_news, we have a new summary of the past 20 years of tax credits — in one table

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Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin · Jul 17

I went to North Jersey to check out some magnets

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Heatmap News@heatmap_news · Jul 15

Mark your calendars for a virtual Heatmap briefing next Tuesday. Heatmap's own @katie_brigham will be joined by @latimes' @Sammy_Roth, @business' @HiMichelleMa, and @Fisch_Tank's @EricFischgrund to talk about covering climate and energy in these strange times.

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jul 11

Emerald AI says they can turn data centers into grid assets by reducing their electricity use 0.5% of the time, freeing up almost 100 gigawatts of grid capacity. how big a difference will that make in the nation's need for an enormous grid infra buildout? heatmap.news/climate-tech/e…

katie_brigham's tweet card. Or at least the team at Emerald AI is going to try.

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jul 11

Thank you @katie_brigham! We're thrilled at @EmeraldAI_ to unlock massive new capacity for data centers on existing power systems. This is a great profile of both the challenges and the opportunity to advance AI competitiveness, stabilize rates, and protect grid reliability 💪

HHeatmap News@heatmap_news · Jul 11

"If an algorithm could help alleviate even some of the urgency of an unprecedented buildout of power plants and transmission infrastructure, well, that’d be a big deal." Meet @EmeraldAi_, the startup that promises to save the grid with software: heatmap.news/climate-tech/e…

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jul 9

Really glad to see this in-depth coverage of what the GOP has just done to the Loan Programs Office. Gutting Section 1703 while toying with 1706 will destroy what makes the LPO so effective and so important. Thanks so much to @katie_brigham for interviewing me for this piece!

HHeatmap News@heatmap_news · Jul 9

“This is the longest-standing program of the LPO. So to see this defunded is like, you’re decapitating the LPO’s crown jewel," @advaitarun_ tells @katie_brigham. Here's what the One Big Beautiful Bill did to the Loan Programs Office: heatmap.news/climate-tech/o…

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jul 9

the Big Beautiful Bill has left the Loan Program's Office a shadow of its former self, hollowing out many of its core programs and greatly reducing its ability to place big bets heatmap.news/climate-tech/o…

katie_brigham's tweet card. Some of the Loan Programs Office’s signature programs are hollowed-out shells.

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Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh@AndreasenJack · Jul 1

Of course, I'm not opposed to CCS or CDR. I'm not opposed to building transmission lines. I'm not opposed to building housing. I just have a very narrow and unworkable set of criteria that need to be satisfied for me to support it. Of course, we need it all though.

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jul 1

sodium-ion battery startup Lyten has scooped up Northvolt's old li-ion energy storage systems plant in Poland. it's the largest energy storage facility in Europe, thus making Lyten a major player in this sector practically overnight heatmap.news/climate-tech/l…

katie_brigham's tweet card. It’s the largest facility of its kind of Europe and will immediately make the lithium-sulfur battery startup a major player.

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jun 25

how much scientific rigor/certainty does it take for a CDR company to be “ready” for the voluntary carbon market? i explore this q through the lens of Planetary, a startup using the ocean to drawdown CO2. w/ insights from @carbonplanorg + @_CWorthy heatmap.news/carbon-removal…

katie_brigham's tweet card. The science is still out — but some of the industry’s key players are moving ahead regardless.

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Emily Pontecorvo@emilypont · Jun 25

Really excellent new piece from @katie_brigham on the first certification and issuance of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement carbon removal credits heatmap.news/carbon-removal…

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jun 18

the Senate mega-bill and its proposed overhaul of clean energy tax credits is causing a flurry of feelings amongst climate tech investors, whose reactions thus far have ranged from broadly enthusiastic to tepidly optimistic to deeply dismayed heatmap.news/climate-tech/c…

katie_brigham's tweet card. The planet is a different story.

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Robinson Meyer@robinsonmeyer · Jun 16

This is a great catch by @katie_brigham: Right now, the One Big, Beautiful Bill would cut off all tax credits for nuclear fusion — even though it’s likely to extend them for advanced nuclear fission and geothermal.

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jun 13

nuclear got a reprieve in the latest version of the budget bill, but the carveout that extends tax credit eligibility for new nuclear does NOT include fusion, which may now ~truly~ be on the verge of commercialization heatmap.news/climate-tech/o…

katie_brigham's tweet card. How the perpetually almost-there technology could get shut out of the Inflation Reduction Act’s surviving nuclear tax credits.

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Alexander C. Kaufman@AlexCKaufman · Jun 13

America's ability to commercialize its fusion energy breakthroughs is seriously jeopardized by the current state of Republicans' IRA rollbacks. Great reporting by @katie_brigham

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katie brigham@katie_brigham · Jun 12

microreactor company @RadiantNuclear looks well positioned to be the nuclear company of the Trump admin's dreams, as it seeks to commercialize 1 mw microreactors for military bases and other remote outposts by 2028 heatmap.news/climate-tech/r…

katie_brigham's tweet card. The company is well-positioned to take advantage of Trump’s nuclear policies, include his goal of installing a microreactor on a military base within the next few years.

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