Stephen Lacey
Co-Founder and Executive Editor, Latitude Media. On 2 shows, 167 appearances, plus 2 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Stephen Lacey is an energy transition journalist and media entrepreneur who co-founded Latitude Media to cover climate tech and clean energy. He has created and hosted several podcasts covering the clean economy, including The Energy Gang, The Interchange, and Open Circuit.
2shows
167appearances
263statements
222resolved
186supported
8contradicted
84%fully supported
171said about them ↓ Everything Stephen Lacey said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Florida Power & Light paid Matrix millions to fund ghost candidates
“An investigation from the Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel found that FPNL, Florida's biggest utility, sent millions of dollars to Matrix to prop up fake candidates in local races. Those so-called ghost candidates siphoned votes away from candidates who the u…”
Matrix used utility funds to secretly finance six local news sites
“The floodlight team found direct financial links between six local news outlets, Matrix, FPNL, and Alabama Power. Matrix used utility money to fund political websites with names like Alabama Today, Florida Politics, and The Capitalist, and buy favorable covera…”
Elon Musk laid off Tesla's entire Supercharger team to prioritize robotaxis
“Musk also laid off the entire supercharger team, and now he's putting all his attention on an autonomous robo-taxi.”
Lacey: AI data centers need grid transmission, not advanced nuclear breakthroughs
“I don't think we really need any energy breakthroughs to serve these data centers, though. We just need a lot more transmission to get clean power to these data centers, and it's, I mean, it's an infrastructure challenge and there are a lot of ways that you ca…”
Lacey: Zero EV chargers built yet from $7.5B federal infrastructure program
“The Inflation Reduction Act allocated seven and a half billion dollars to building out a national EV charger network in this country, and two billion of those funds have been allocated to states, but there have been zero chargers built as part of those funds, …”
Lacey: Over Half of US Manufacturing Incentives Go to Foreign Firms
“More than half of the incentives are actually being in on the manufacturing side are being taken and Advantage of by firms outside the US.”
Lacey: 99% of US coal plants cost more than new renewables
“Back in February, we made an episode about how 99% of coal plants in America are more expensive to operate than new renewables.”
Lacey: America Excels at Inventing Energy Technologies, Not Manufacturing Them
“A-one-two-three systems was supposed to represent the next generation of U.S. Manufacturing. Instead, it showed how America excels at inventing new energy technologies, but not building them.”
Lacey: GOP threats to repeal IRA incentives are economically insane
“In any case, even if these are hollow threats, they are just economically insane.”
Lacey: Republican districts get 5x more IRA clean energy funding than Democrats
“According to the Financial Times, Republican-held congressional districts are getting five times more funding for clean energy projects, including new manufacturing plants, than ones controlled by Democrats through this IRA legislation.”
Susan Ralston's firm received $300,000 from the Paul Singer Foundation
“At the time she was setting up Citizens for Responsible Solar, Ralston's firm pulled in 300,000 dollars from the Paul Singer Foundation,”
Lacey: FPL wants monopoly control over its massive renewable footprint
“Florida Power and Light has one of the biggest renewable energy development arms in the country, but they want to own it, and, ah, any policies that promote customer empowerment are potentially a threat to the utility”
Lacey: Clean Energy Is Only 5% of Global Oil Capex
“And even with windfall profits, clean energy only accounts for five percent of oil company capital expenditures globally.”
Lacey: Tesla faced a DOJ criminal probe for inflating Autopilot capabilities
“Tesla was facing a criminal probe from the Department of Justice for inflating autopilot capabilities, and a handful of startups were facing cash flow crunches.”
Lacey: Study finds 42% of corporate emissions targets fail real-world mitigation
“A study just published in the journal Nature Climate Change looked at a 115 companies with science-based targets. These are targets modeled after the Paris Climate Accord, and researchers found that 42% of planned emissions cuts from those companies will quote…”
Power outage durations doubled under privatized grid operator LUMA Energy
“In the fall of last year, there was some investigative reporting about what was happening to the grid under Luma, and one of the stats that grabbed me was that outage times have actually doubled under Luma. It's taking them longer to repair service than it did…”
The CBO lacks a method to calculate economic costs of climate change
“Is that it has no way of calculating the cost of climate change to the economy.”
Lacey: Political Backlash Over Solyndra Was "Incredibly Stupid" Theater
“This was an incredibly stupid piece of political theater.”
Lacey: A single Bitcoin transaction can power a US home for six weeks
“And if you want to trade that Bitcoin or use it to buy something, no matter how small, that single transaction could use enough energy to power an American home for six weeks.”
Lacey: Struggling US Fossil Fuel Plants Get Lifeline From Bitcoin Miners
“What Brian saw in Lake Seneca is unfolding across the U.S. Coal and gas power plants that are under pressure in Ohio, Montana, Pennsylvania, and even elsewhere in New York are now getting an economic lifeline thanks to partnerships with Bitcoin miners.”
Lacey: Biden Administration Considers Using Wartime Powers to Produce Heat Pumps
“There's a real serious consideration inside the Biden administration to use wartime powers to boost heat pump production and then to send those heat pumps over to Europe to for heating to reduce natural gas consumption.”
Lacey: BP invented the 'carbon footprint' in a PR campaign
“And so Mark dug into the history of the term, and he soon found that this popular framing wasn't grounded in science or academia. It was the direct result of a public relations campaign. It was a story made up by a multinational oil company.”
Lacey: 100 companies generated 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 1988
“Since 1988, only a hundred companies have been the source of 70% of the world's heat-trapping gases, and BP's campaign did a miraculously good job of deflecting that blame for nearly two decades”
Tampa Electric used lobbying funds to fight local gas bans
“Again, it was non-binding, but it scared the local investor-owned utility Tampa Electric, also known as TECO. So TECO did what a lot of other gas utilities are doing. It used its lobbying power and money to launch a more aggressive counter-strike.”
The other half of the tape: Stephen Lacey's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 171 times in 159 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Shayle Kann 111Lara Pierpoint 52Tim Hade 1Sarah Golden 1Jim Kenney 1Jason Bordoff 1Emily Kirsch 1Dr. Melissa Lott 1
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
Catalyst 123
the Green Blueprint 48
2026 52 mentions in 44 episodes 1 per episode
- Burying trees to save forests?
- The microbial solution to our massive copper shortfall
- Did someone just figure out how to project finance nuclear?
- The missing capital for climate startups: more debt
- The ‘brutal reality’ of scaling low-carbon fertilizer
- Form Energy's manufacturing breakthrough
- Why the climate tech ‘missing middle’ is a massive opportunity
- The perovskite bet that could transform solar
- 36 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 69 mentions in 65 episodes 1 per episode
- Boston Metal’s path to carbon-free steel
- The thermal battery transforming cold storage for India’s dairy farmers
- This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington
- The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough
- Will inference move to the edge?
- Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage
- Inside Microsoft’s plan to remove 50 years of carbon emissions
- Can AI revolutionize EPC?
- 57 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 16 mentions in 16 episodes 1 per episode
- What went wrong at Northvolt?
- A complex path for building heat batteries
- The risk of scaling 100x
- Why concentrated solar couldn’t compete
- Fixing the refrigerant problem
- Why are we still flaring gas?
- Hunting for geologic hydrogen
- Pathways to decarbonizing steel
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2022 24 mentions in 24 episodes 1 per episode
- Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire?
- Watt It Takes: TeraWatt Infrastructure CEO Neha Palmer
- Making sense of solar engineering
- From biowaste to “biogold”
- Climate tech’s surprising bottleneck – land access
- Tapping the goldmine of consumer energy data
- How will the downturn affect climate tech?
- Shayle’s “ask me anything” episode
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Is nuclear fusion getting close?
- Quantum computing could be a critical climate solution
- The future of natural gas
- A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation
- Kickstarting a $1 trillion market for carbon removal
- Can 'deeptech' venture capital solve climate change?
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Stephen's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER | Co-Founder and Executive Editor, Latitude Mediahost | 124 | 239 | 85% 176/207 | full record on the Green Blueprint → |
| CATALYSTLEDGER | Co-Founder and Executive Editor, Latitude Media | 43 +2 | 24 | 67% 10/15 | full record on Catalyst → |