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.
How Dueling PDFs Explain a Fight Over the Future of the Grid
By Dan Gearino
Clean Energy Experts Are Stretched Too Thin
By Dan Gearino
A New Battery Intended to Power Passenger Airplanes and EVs, Explained
By Dan Gearino
Red States Stand to Benefit From a ‘Layer Cake’ of Tax Breaks From Inflation Reduction Act
By Dan Gearino
Mourning, and Celebration: A Funeral for a Coal-Fired Power Plant
By Dan Gearino
California Enters ‘Uncharted Territory’ After Cutting Payments to Rooftop Solar Owners by 75 Percent
By Dan Gearino
Utilities Seize Control of the Coming Boom in Transmission Lines
By Dan Gearino
The Most-Cited Number About the Inflation Reduction Act Is Probably Wrong, and That Could Be a Good Thing
By Dan Gearino
Look Out, California: One of the Country’s Largest Solar Arrays is Taking Shape in… Illinois?
By Dan Gearino
This Dime-Sized Battery Is a Step Toward an EV With a 1,000-Mile Range
By Dan Gearino
Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production
By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino
What’s the Future of Gas Stations in an EV World?
By Dan Gearino
This Giant Truck Shows Clean Steel Is Possible. So When Will the US Start Producing It?
By Dan Gearino
These Small- and Medium-Sized States Punch Above Their Weight in Renewable Energy Generation
By Dan Gearino
Do Solar Farms Lower Property Values? A New Study Has Some Answers
By Dan Gearino
One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other—and It’s Not California
By Dan Gearino