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ICN reporter Dan Gearinoa

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.

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An employee works on the floor of the Metal Technologies plant in Ravenna, Mich. The company participates in a demand response program in which its industrial facilities agree to power down at times of high demand on the grid. Credit: Metal Technologies

When the Power Grid Needs Relief from High Demand, Here’s Who You Call

By Dan Gearino

Cattle have been marked for an animal behavior study, showing each cow’s interaction with the solar equipment on Silicon Ranch’s Christiana Solar Farm in Tennessee. Credit: Courtesy of Silicon Ranch

Can Cows and Solar Power Coexist? We’re About to Find Out

By Dan Gearino

Rachel Kutzley demonstrates a thermal camera, a device that can help to identify the leakage of heat, at the Energy Smart Home Expo in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 25. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

A Home Energy Fair Offers a Counter Narrative to Cynicism About Climate Change

By Dan Gearino

Amazon data centers loom over houses at the edge of a neighborhood in Loudoun County, Va. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

How Did This State Become the Data Center Capital of the World?

By Dan Gearino, Charles Paullin

The Data Center Capital of the World

ICN Sunday Morning

Transmission lines feed into a substation near a data center construction site on July 24 in Lewis Center, Ohio. Credit: Eli Hiller/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Administration Seeks to Speed Data Center Grid Connections and Expand Federal Control of Power System

By Dan Gearino

People attend the launch event for the Rivian R2 at the Rivian South Coast Theater in Laguna Beach, Calif., on March 7, 2024. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

What’s Ahead for the US Electric Vehicle Industry After Hitting a Massive Speed Bump?

By Dan Gearino

EV batteries connected to chargers are a potentially vast resource that could be utilized by the grid. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster?

By Dan Gearino

Southern California Edison technicians attach power lines to a utility pole on July 13 in Culver City, Calif. Credit: Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images

Which States Are Getting Hit Hardest by Electricity Price Increases?

By Dan Gearino

President Donald Trump speaks during the 80th session of the U.N.’s General Assembly at the organization’s headquarters on Tuesday in New York City. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump Takes His ‘Green Energy Scam’ Talk to the UN

By Dan Gearino

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks in front of the Keystone Trade Center during a press conference on Aug. 7 in Falls Township, Pa.

Citing the Need for ‘Significant Reform,’ Pennsylvania’s Governor Threatens to Pull the State Out of the Region’s Power Grid

By Kiley Bense, Aman Azhar, Charles Paullin, Dan Gearino, Rambo Talabong

Liz Robinson, executive director at Philadelphia Solar Energy Association, at her solar-powered rental property in Philadelphia on Sept. 3. Credit: Laurence Kesterson/Inside Climate News

Pennsylvania Was Once a National Leader in Renewable Energy. What Happened?

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus?

ICN Sunday Morning

An aerial view shows a natural gas processing plant under construction in Pennsylvania’s Washington County on Oct. 26, 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

This solar panel has been struck by an ice ball during a durability test at the Renewable Energy Test Center in Fremont, Calif. Credit: RETC

Utility-Scale Solar Can Withstand Severe Hailstorms. Here’s How

By Dan Gearino

The coal-fired John E. Amos Power Plant in West Virginia. Credit: Joseph Sohm/Visions of America via Getty Images

Coal Is Rising Along with Solar in the U.S. Power System, While Gas Loses a Step

By Dan Gearino

AI’s Massive Energy Demands 

ICN Sunday Morning

Cologix’s COL4 data center and its adjacent substation is seen on July 24 in Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Eli Hiller/The Washington Post via Getty Images

To Handle Data Centers, the Electricity System May Need New Rules. Here Is a Proposal

By Dan Gearino

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