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: 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
Inside Clean Energy: Here’s a Cool New EV, but You Can’t Have It
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts to Help Make Sense of 2021, a Year Coal Was Up and Solar Was Way Up
By Dan Gearino
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
Inside Clean Energy: In Parched California, a Project Aims to Save Water and Produce Renewable Energy
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Texas Is the Country’s Clean Energy Leader, Almost in Spite of Itself
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Recycling Solar Panels Is a Big Challenge, but Here’s Some Recent Progress
By Dan Gearino
Is the California Coalition Fighting Subsidies For Rooftop Solar a Fake Grassroots Group?
By Anne Marshall-Chalmers, Dan Gearino
One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: In the New World of Long-Duration Battery Storage, an Old Technology Holds Its Own
By Dan Gearino
