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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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Traffic backs up at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza on Aug. 24, 2022 in Oakland, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Just Banned Gas-Powered Cars. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines spin at sunset on May 10, 2021 near Bernau, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Idea of 100 Percent Renewable Energy Is Once Again Having a Moment

By Dan Gearino

Doug Steck at his family’s farm near Williamsport, Ohio. His family has agreed a lease to allow development of some of the property for solar power. Credit: Dan Gearino

Outnumbered: In Rural Ohio, Two Supporters of Solar Power Step Into a Roomful of Opposition

By Dan Gearino

The 6-megawatt Stanton Solar Farm outside of Orlando, Florida is seen in this aerial view. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: ‘Solar Coaster’ Survivors Rejoice at Senate Bill

By Dan Gearino

Power lines strung through the Florida Everglades. Credit: Michele Eve Sandberg/Corbis via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: A Dirty Scandal for a Clean Energy Leader

By Dan Gearino

At least three separate analyses by think tanks and academic institutions agree that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions some 40 percent by 2030

Deep in the Democrats’ Climate Bill, Analysts See More Wins for Clean Energy Than Gifts for Fossil Fuel Business

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna

Signs opposing the solar project are plentiful all around Williamsport Ohio. July 12, 2022.

The Energy Transition Runs Into a Ditch in Rural Ohio

By Dan Gearino

A student demonstrates the semi-transparent view through the solar cell. The new manufacturing process could enable meter-scale electricity-producing windows. Credit: Silvia Cardarelli, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan

Inside Clean Energy: What’s Hotter than Solar Panels? Solar Windows.

By Dan Gearino

The Moss Landing Energy Storage facility has 400 megawatts of capacity and the ability to run at that level for up to four hours. Credit: Vistra Corp.

Inside Clean Energy: Did You Miss Me? A Giant Battery Storage Plant Is Back Online, Just in Time for Summer

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: This Virtual Power Plant Is Trying to Tackle a Housing Crisis and an Energy Crisis All at Once

By Dan Gearino

National Renewable Energy Laboratory researcher Jordan Macknick carries a tray of seedlings for crops being planted at a testing site in Colorado, part of a study on growing plants alongside solar panels. Credit: Werner Slocum / NREL

Inside Clean Energy: Yes, There Are Benefits of Growing Broccoli Beneath Solar Panels

By Dan Gearino

Yan Yao (left) and Ye Zhang work with solid-state sodium batteries.Credit: University of Houston

Inside Clean Energy: Solid-State Batteries for EVs Make a Leap Toward Mass Production

By Dan Gearino

Workers for an oilfield service company work at a drilling site in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 20, 2016 in the oil town of Andrews, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A New GOP Climate Plan Is Long on Fossil Fuels, Short on Specifics

By Dan Gearino

LADWPs Pine Tree Wind Farm and Solar Power Plant in the Tehachapi Mountains on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 in Kern County, California. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The US’s New Record in Renewables, Explained in Three Charts

By Dan Gearino

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

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