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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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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

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

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

Workers carry solar panels to be installed at a one-million-kilowatt photovoltaic project in Lingwu, China, on April 14. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

The Researcher Who Wrote the Book on How Solar Got Cheap Is Back to Assess the Current Moment

By Dan Gearino

The Kearny Generating Station, owned and operated by the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, is seen in Kearny, N.J. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

Utilities Want to Regain the Ability to Build Power Plants in PJM. Consumer Advocates Say That’s Probably a Bad Idea

By Dan Gearino

A foreman for the solar company Sunrun installs a 215-pound lithium-ion battery at a home in Granada Hills, Calif., on Jan. 4, 2020. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Virtual Power Plants Showed Up for Their Biggest Test Yet. Here Are the Results

By Dan Gearino

The Hugh L. Spurlock Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant within PJM’s territory, is seen on June 12 in Maysville, Ky. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Why Prices Are Soaring in the Country’s Largest Grid Region, Explained in 5 Charts

By Dan Gearino, Rambo Talabong

Rooftop solar panels are installed on a home in Kensington, Md., on July 3. Credit: Maansi Srivastava/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Federal Rooftop Solar Grants Are on the Chopping Block. Here’s Who Would Get Hurt

By Dan Gearino

Hornet Solar in Swisher County, Texas, is the largest U.S. power plant to go online in the first six months of this year, based on its capacity of 600 megawatts. Credit: Vesper Energy

Solar and Batteries Lead US Power Plant Additions by a Lot. How Does This Square With the Trump Administration’s Agenda?

By Dan Gearino

A Volkswagen ID.4 EV charges at a shopping mall parking lot in Torrance, Calif., on Feb. 23, 2024. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

As Consumer Tax Credits Vanish, What Do You Need to Know?

By Dan Gearino

A look inside Google’s New Albany data center in Central Ohio. Credit: Google

Consumers (and a Utility) Get a Win in Ohio, While Data Centers Take the Loss

By Dan Gearino

Workers install solar panels for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Eland Solar and Storage Center in the Mojave Desert of Kern County on Nov. 25, 2024. Credit: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Trump Issues Executive Order Targeting ‘Unreliable’ Clean Energy Options

By Dan Gearino

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

Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) arrive before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on June 12 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

The Revised ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Still Contains a Poison Pill. A Tax Expert Explains

By Dan Gearino

Mark Ellis, a former Sempra Corp. executive who has made an unusual shift and become a consumer advocate, poses on a bluff overlooking Scripps Pier at U.C. San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which is near his home. Credit: David Poller/Inside Climate News

A Former California Utility Exec Explains Why Your Electricity Bills Are So High

By Dan Gearino

Exterior construction was just about complete at the LG Energy Solution-Honda joint venture battery plant in October 2024 near Jeffersonville, Ohio. Credit: Honda

What Does the ‘Big Beautiful’ Debate Tell Us About the Politics of the IRA?

By Dan Gearino

A container ship is docked at the Port of Oakland in California on Feb. 3. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

What Will Tariffs Do to the Energy Economy? Here Are Three Scenarios

By Dan Gearino

From left: Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Chip Roy (R-Texas), Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), Andy Harris (R-Md.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Clay Higgins (R-La.) talk to the press about ongoing negotiations over the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" at the Capitol Building on May 21. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

House Republicans Have Passed a Bill to Gut the IRA. What Happened to All the Supposed Holdouts?

By Dan Gearino

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