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Dan Gearino

Clean Energy Reporter, Midwest, National Environment Reporting Network

Dan Gearino covers the midwestern United States, part of ICN’s National Environment Reporting Network. His coverage deals with the business side of the clean-energy transition and he writes 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.

Aerial view of a maintenance worker checking solar panels at a photovoltaic power station covered by snow at Qianjiang District on Jan. 17, 2021 in Chongqing, China. Credit: Ye Xingjian/VCG via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Think Solar Panels Don’t Work in Snow? New Research Says Otherwise

By Dan Gearino

This shipping container holds a flow battery storage system developed by ESS Tech Inc. of Oregon. The company is aiming to meet the need for long-duration energy storage with batteries that can discharge electricity for up to 12 hours. Credit: ESS Tech

Inside Clean Energy: Flow Batteries Could Be a Big Part of Our Energy Storage Future. So What’s a Flow Battery?

By Dan Gearino

A rare earth elements magnetic separation loop system at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The equipment is used to extract rare earth elements from brines. Credit: Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Inside Clean Energy: In a World Starved for Lithium, Researchers Develop a Method to Get It from Water

By Dan Gearino

The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California on Sept. 3, 2020, ahead of a heatwave. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Coming this Summer: Spiking Electricity Bills Plus Blackouts

By Dan Gearino

Workers for Ideal Energy install solar panels on the roof of a natural foods store in Fairfield, Iowa. Credit: Ideal Energy

Inside Clean Energy: Navigating the U.S. Solar Industry’s Spring of Discontent

By Dan Gearino

CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing "Cyber Rodeo" grand opening party on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas. Credit: Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: US Electric Vehicle Sales Soared in First Quarter, while Overall Auto Sales Slid

By Dan Gearino

A three-dimensional lighting installation is pictured in Ganton Street on Nov. 10, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The installation features 51 oversized LED light bulbs and was commissioned to James Glancey Design. Credit: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures

Inside Clean Energy: The Idea of Energy Efficiency Needs to Be Reinvented

By Dan Gearino

Battery blocks are be seen in a commercial battery park. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: US Battery Storage Soared in 2021, Including These Three Monster Projects

By Dan Gearino

Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks in a general debate in a plenary session in the Bundestag. Credit: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images

Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?

By Dan Gearino

A broken photovoltaic cell lies on a table at the Aleo factory on Sept. 12, 2012 in Pritzwalk, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Here Are The People Who Break Solar Panels to Learn How to Make Them Stronger

By Dan Gearino

NRG Energy's coal-fired Will County Electric Generating Station sits along the I&M Canal on May 15, 2019 in Romeoville, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

‘Last Gasp for Coal’ Saw Illinois Plants Crank up Emission-Spewing Production Last Year

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s a Cool New EV, but You Can’t Have It

By Dan Gearino

Excavators and bulldozers stack thermal coal at Lianyungang Port on Nov. 17, 2021 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. Credit: Wang Chun/VCG via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts to Help Make Sense of 2021, a Year Coal Was Up and Solar Was Way Up

By Dan Gearino

People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Gov. Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar panels on their rooftops outside the California State Capitol Museum in Sacramento, California, on Dec. 8, 2021. Credit: Aníbal Martel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Are United In California Rooftop Solar Fight, with One Notable Exception

By Dan Gearino, Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Inside Clean Energy: Explaining the Record-Breaking Offshore Wind Sale

By Dan Gearino

A conceptual rendering of solar canopies covering part of Turlock Irrigation District's 110-foot-wide main canal, near Turlock, California. Credit: Turlock Irrigation District

Inside Clean Energy: In Parched California, a Project Aims to Save Water and Produce Renewable Energy

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines are shown on June 15, 2021 in Papalote, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Texas Is the Country’s Clean Energy Leader, Almost in Spite of Itself

By Dan Gearino

Close-up of a photovoltaic solar energy panel with reflection of the sun. Credit: Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Recycling Solar Panels Is a Big Challenge, but Here’s Some Recent Progress

By Dan Gearino

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