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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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People visit the booth of CATL, a major power battery maker, at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai, China Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Credit: Long Wei / Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images

A New Battery Intended to Power Passenger Airplanes and EVs, Explained

By Dan Gearino

An ENGIE employee walks past solar panels at the ENGIE Sun Valley Solar project in Hill County, Texas, on March 1, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Red States Stand to Benefit From a ‘Layer Cake’ of Tax Breaks From Inflation Reduction Act

By Dan Gearino

An image of Conesville Power Plant from animation drawn by Michael Schmidt.

Mourning, and Celebration: A Funeral for a Coal-Fired Power Plant

By Dan Gearino

Workers install solar panels on the roofs of homes under construction south of Corona, California on May 3, 2018. Credit: Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images

California Enters ‘Uncharted Territory’ After Cutting Payments to Rooftop Solar Owners by 75 Percent

By Dan Gearino

A view of high voltage transmission towers on Feb. 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Utilities Seize Control of the Coming Boom in Transmission Lines

By Dan Gearino

An array of electricity producing wind turbines are viewed along Interstate 10 on May 11, 2022 near Palm Springs, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

The Most-Cited Number About the Inflation Reduction Act Is Probably Wrong, and That Could Be a Good Thing

By Dan Gearino

Construction at the Double Black Diamond solar project in southeast Sangamon County on March 20, 2023 near Virden, Illinois. Photo Courtesy of Rich Saal/Swift Current Energy of Boston

Look Out, California: One of the Country’s Largest Solar Arrays is Taking Shape in… Illinois?

By Dan Gearino

Lithium-air battery cells photographed in the lab of Mohammad Asadi at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The cells, about the size of a button or a dime, are hooked up to battery analysis equipment. Credit: Illinois Institute of Technology

This Dime-Sized Battery Is a Step Toward an EV With a 1,000-Mile Range

By Dan Gearino

Coal miners, their faces smeared with coal dust in a coal mine, in Cumberland, Kentucky, around 1945. Credit: Curtis Wainscott/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production

By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino

An electric car charges at a Motor Fuel Group station on Sept. 29, 2021 in London, England. Credit: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

What’s the Future of Gas Stations in an EV World?

By Dan Gearino

A dump truck made of steel produced without the use of fossil fuels is the second of its kind sold in North America. Credit: Volvo

This Giant Truck Shows Clean Steel Is Possible. So When Will the US Start Producing It?

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines spin above corn fields near Carroll, Iowa on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. Credit: Bill Clark/Getty Images

These Small- and Medium-Sized States Punch Above Their Weight in Renewable Energy Generation

By Dan Gearino

Solar tracker panels follow the sun's path on May 17, 2014 on a Champlain Valley dairy farm near West Haven, Vermont. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Do Solar Farms Lower Property Values? A New Study Has Some Answers

By Dan Gearino

An Engie employee looks out toward the wind turbines during a tour for the dedication of the Limestone Wind Project in Dawson, Texas, on Feb. 28, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other—and It’s Not California

By Dan Gearino

A Nissan Leaf at a EV charging station at Flight Deck Brewing in Brunswick. Credit: Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Why It’s Time to Officially Get Over Your EV Range Anxiety

By Dan Gearino

Randy DeBaillie walks toward his solar panels at his farm in Orion, Illinois on Feb. 3, 2019. Credit: Youngrae Kim for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Illinois Put a Stop to Local Governments’ Ability to Kill Solar and Wind Projects. Will Other Midwestern States Follow?

By Dan Gearino, Aydali Campa

Al Gore speaks at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 17, 2023. Credit: World Economic Forum/ Greg Beadle

Al Gore Talks Climate Progress, Setbacks and the First Rule of Holes: Stop Digging

By Dan Gearino

The Fairbault Community Solar project, located just east of Faribault, Minnesota. Credit: Cooperative Energy Futures

Community Solar Is About to Get a Surge in Federal Funding. So What Is Community Solar?

By Dan Gearino

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