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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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Somervell County Commissioner Jeff Harris shows where a route for a high-voltage transmission line is proposed near Dinosaur Valley State Park. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

A Town’s Opposition to Proposed Power Lines Sparks Discussion About the Cost of Texas’ Growth

By Arcelia Martin

Transmission lines connect to a power plant near Richmond, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

As Data Centers Jostle to Get on Texas’ Grid, ERCOT Promises New Rules for ‘Batch Zero’

By Arcelia Martin

Jupiter Powers battery storage complex in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

The Texas Power Grid Will Get a Boost from Batteries This Winter

By Arcelia Martin

A battery storage facility in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

How Batteries Could Play a Role in Data Center Rollouts

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Blue Jay solar and battery storage plant in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

ERCOT’s Market is Transitioning Toward Storage and Solar

By Arcelia Martin

Vehicles move along Interstate 210 on Wednesday in Pasadena, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Trump Administration Terminates Fuel Economy Standards

By Arcelia Martin

A view of a battery storage complex and substation in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s Policies Risk Texas’ New Solar and Battery Projects

By Arcelia Martin

Diesel-fueled generators sit between buildings at the Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Data Centers’ Use of Diesel Generators for Backup Power Is Commonplace—and Problematic

By Arcelia Martin

In Houston, solar panels run down the line to the next manufacturing process at Elin Energy's solar panel manufacturing facility. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Texas Grid Increasingly Meets Growing Demand With Renewables

By Arcelia Martin

An electric substation is seen at a power plant in Houston. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

‘Rapid Explosion’ of Data Centers Causes Planning Struggles in Texas

By Arcelia Martin

Paul Westbrook shows a solar panel placed at the edge of his Fairview, Texas, property, to a tour group gathered for Sun Day — a day meant to commemorate the power of clean energy. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

This Texas Family Designed Their House Around the Solar Cycle Nearly 30 Years Ago

By Arcelia Martin

A prototype of a 3-D solar tower is seen at Janta Power’s Dallas office that is interconnected to the Texas grid. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

A Dallas Startup Raises $5.5 Million to Build 3-D Solar Towers

By Arcelia Martin

In Houston, a transmission tower in July, as ERCOT, the state's power grid, urged customers to preserve electricity. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Grid Operators and Regulators Iron Out New Rules for Data Centers

By Arcelia Martin

A surface coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Credit: BLM Wyoming

Bureau of Land Management to Sell Off Federal Coal Reserve Leases in Wyoming

By Arcelia Martin, Jake Bolster

Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus?

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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

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