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Arcelia Martin

Reporter, Texas Renewables

Arcelia Martin is an award-winning journalist at Inside Climate News. She covers renewable energy in Texas from her base in Dallas. Before joining ICN in 2025, Arcelia was a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News and at The Tennessean. Originally from San Diego, California, she’s a graduate of Gonzaga University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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A scientist works on a scanning electron microscope at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Department of Energy Allocates $134 million for Fusion Funding

By Arcelia Martin

Employees walk the floor and supervise machines at the T1 Energy plant near Dallas. Credit: T1 Energy

Despite Everything, US Solar Manufacturing Continues to Power Up

By Dan Gearino, Arcelia Martin

580 EV battery packs are deployed in B2U’s SEPV Cuyama energy storage project in Santa Barbara County, Calif. The system charges from on-site solar and from the grid. Credit: Courtesy of B2U Storage Solutions

Hundreds of Old EV Batteries Have New Jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the Grid

By Arcelia Martin

President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during the “Winning the AI Race” summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump’s AI Action Plan Waives Federal Environmental Rules in the Development of Data Centers

By Arcelia Martin

The Blue Jay solar and storage plant in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images.

What Risks Texas’ Grid Faces

By Arcelia Martin

People hold candles in a park. In the foreground, a woman weeps.

Climate Change Helped Fuel Heavy Rains That Led to Devastating Texas Flood

By Arcelia Martin

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (center) is congratulated by his fellow Republicans after signing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Set to Slash Through U.S. Climate and Justice Drive

By Marianne Lavelle, Aidan Hughes, Amy Green, Arcelia Martin, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

A view of the Prairie View A&M University Solar Lab in Prairie View, Texas. Credit: Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s Legislation Will Constrict the Growth of Texas’ Clean Energy Industry and its Power Grid

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Azure Sky Solar Project in Haskell, Texas, on August 12, 2024. Credit: Ramsay de Give/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Texas’ Risk of Summer Blackouts Reduced Thanks to Solar and Batteries

By Arcelia Martin

Soluna’s Project Dorothy data center in Texas. Credit: Soluna

How a Data Center Company Uses Stranded Renewable Energy

By Arcelia Martin

A wind turbine sits behind a house in Nolan, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Bills That Could Have Hurt Renewable Energy Die in Texas Legislature

By Arcelia Martin

Sisters Abigail and Jennifer Lindsey stand on their rural property on May 27 outside New Braunfels, Texas, where they posted a sign in opposition to a large data center and power plant planned across the street. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Data Centers Are Building Their Own Gas Power Plants in Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Clinton Clean Energy Center in Illinois. Credit: Constellation Energy

Meta Strikes 20-Year Nuclear Power Deal With Constellation Energy

By Arcelia Martin

In Fort Worth, Texas, a swinging bench hangs from a tree after a snow storm during Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, when residents went days without electricity and fresh water after a catastrophic failure of the power grid in the state.Credit: Ron Jenkins/Getty Images.

The Chairman of Texas’ Public Utility Commission Has a To-Do List

By Arcelia Martin

A worker assembles solar panels at a production facility in Lianyungang, China. Credit: Si Wei/VCG via Getty Images

Will Tariffs on Solar Cell Imports Invigorate the U.S. Manufacturing Market?

By Arcelia Martin

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) talks with reporters at the U.S. Capitol on April 1 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Sen. Susan Collins Blasts Trump for Cuts to Scientific Research

By Arcelia Martin

A Federal Emergency Management Agency agent works with a search and recovery team to check charred buildings and cars in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 18, 2023. Credit: Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images

Nearly Half of the Country’s Attorneys General Make Legal Effort to Restore FEMA Funds

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Will Texas Become ‘the Epicenter of a National Nuclear Renaissance’?

By Arcelia Martin

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