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.
Inside Clean Energy: This Virtual Power Plant Is Trying to Tackle a Housing Crisis and an Energy Crisis All at Once
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Yes, There Are Benefits of Growing Broccoli Beneath Solar Panels
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Solid-State Batteries for EVs Make a Leap Toward Mass Production
By Dan Gearino
A New GOP Climate Plan Is Long on Fossil Fuels, Short on Specifics
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: The US’s New Record in Renewables, Explained in Three Charts
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Think Solar Panels Don’t Work in Snow? New Research Says Otherwise
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Flow Batteries Could Be a Big Part of Our Energy Storage Future. So What’s a Flow Battery?
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: In a World Starved for Lithium, Researchers Develop a Method to Get It from Water
By Dan Gearino
Coming this Summer: Spiking Electricity Bills Plus Blackouts
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Navigating the U.S. Solar Industry’s Spring of Discontent
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: US Electric Vehicle Sales Soared in First Quarter, while Overall Auto Sales Slid
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: The Idea of Energy Efficiency Needs to Be Reinvented
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: US Battery Storage Soared in 2021, Including These Three Monster Projects
By Dan Gearino
Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Here Are The People Who Break Solar Panels to Learn How to Make Them Stronger
By Dan Gearino
‘Last Gasp for Coal’ Saw Illinois Plants Crank up Emission-Spewing Production Last Year
By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino