Dan Gearino
Reporter, Clean Energy
Dan Gearino covers the business and policy of renewable energy and utilities, often with an emphasis on the midwestern United States. He is the main author of ICN’s Inside Clean Energy newsletter. He came to ICN in 2018 after a nine-year tenure at The Columbus Dispatch, where he covered the business of energy. Before that, he covered politics and business in Iowa and in New Hampshire. He grew up in Warren County, Iowa, just south of Des Moines, and lives in Columbus, Ohio.
The Oil Price Shock Is Here. Its Arrival Provides a Familiar Warning.
By Dan Gearino
Texas Seizes the Solar Crown From California, and Other Key Points From the Latest Electricity Data
By Dan Gearino
Why Electricity Bills Are So High—and How the Blowback Could Hit Trump
By Dan Gearino, Marianne Lavelle
A Perplexing Ohio Bill Would Ban Wind, Solar … and Coal?
By Dan Gearino
The First Casualty of Trump’s Climate Action Repeal: The U.S. EV Transition
By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino
‘The Sky Isn’t Falling’: Providing Perspective on the Data Center Boom
By Dan Gearino
Looking Ahead to When Gas Stations Vanish
By Dan Gearino
EV Charging Program Faces the Axe in Budget Bill
By Dan Gearino
Global Energy Transition Investment Grew in 2025 Despite Major Obstacles; Here Are the Numbers
By Dan Gearino
What’s Killing Onshore Wind Power?
By Dan Gearino, Anika Jane Beamer
As the U.S. and Canada Clash, China Stands Ready to Step in and Sell the Cars of the Future
By Dan Gearino
Talking About Energy Dominance? Solar Would Like to Have a Word.
By Dan Gearino
Looking Ahead to a Deepening Affordability Crisis, an Election and the Threat of an AI Investment Bubble
By Dan Gearino
The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty
By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff
Let’s Talk About 2025
ICN Sunday Morning
How Do Rooftop Solar and EVs Affect Electricity Costs for Everyone Else? Here’s a New Estimate
By Dan Gearino