If you want to understand where the energy industry is heading, pay attention to the journalists tracking it every day.

Thankfully, we get to sit down with three of the most plugged-in reporters covering the energy transition: Sammy Roth of Climate-Colored Goggles (formerly w/ LA Times), Julian Spector of Canary Media, and Darrell Proctor of POWER Magazine.

What signals are shaping the market right now — from capital flowing into new energy projects to grid bottlenecks, AI-driven electricity demand, and the evolving narrative around fossil fuels and nuclear?

These are the conversations happening inside the clean energy newsroom.

Topics covered:

🔹 Why AI and hyperscale data centers are suddenly driving massive clean energy investment

🔹 The surprising rise of domestic solar manufacturing in the United States

🔹 Why grid interconnection queues remain one of the biggest barriers to new projects

🔹 How journalists are thinking about climate targets in a world already at 1.5°C

If you’re not already following Darrell Proctor, Julian Spector, and Sammy Roth then you’re missing the conversations and stories shaping the clean energy transition.

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