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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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A wind and solar farm on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 in Kern County, California. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Wind and Solar Costs Have Risen. How Long Should We Expect This Trend to Last?

By Dan Gearino

Water vapor streams away from the Coal Creek electric power plant at the Falkirk Mining Company in North Dakota on Jan. 9, 2010. Credit: Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images

Sale of North Dakota’s Largest Coal Plant Is Almost Complete. Then Will Come the Hard Part

By Dan Gearino

A Li-Cycle employee oversees lithium-ion batteries on a conveyor belt at the company’s plant near Rochester, New York. Photo courtesy of Li-Cycle.

Inside Clean Energy: Here Come the Battery Recyclers

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: In the Year of the Electric Truck, Some Real Talk from Texas Auto Dealers

By Dan Gearino

Protesters march to a rally outside of Lowry, Minnesota in March 1978 to try to stop construction of an interstate power line that would cut across the region. Photo by Luther Gerlach, a University of Minnesota anthropologist, who documented the protests as part of his work to understand social movements related to energy.

An Energy Transition Needs Lots of Power Lines. This 1970s Minnesota Farmers’ Uprising Tried to Block One. What Can it Teach Us?

By Dan Gearino

Power lines and power generating windmills rise above the rural landscape on June 13, 2018 near Dwight, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 5 States that Took Leaps on Clean Energy Policy in 2021

By Dan Gearino

People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar panels on their rooftops outside the California State Capitol Museum in Sacramento, California, on Dec. 8, 2021. Credit: Aníbal Martel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Unpacking California’s Controversial New Rooftop Solar Proposal

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Batteries Got Cheaper in 2021. So How Close Are We to EVs That Cost Less than Gasoline Vehicles?

By Dan Gearino

This compressed air energy storage plant in Goderich, Ontario, is one of the two small plants built by Hydrostor ahead of its current proposals to build much larger plants in California. The Goderich plant, completed in 2019, can discharge 1.75 megawatts for about six hours before needing to be recharged. Photo Courtesy of Hydrostor

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s How Compressed Air Can Provide Long-Duration Energy Storage

By Dan Gearino

Workers install photovoltaic panels on the roof of a fish processing plant on Nov. 16, 2021 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province of China. Credit: Yao Feng/VCG via Getty Images

The Clean Energy Transition Enters Hyperdrive

By Dan Gearino

The Block Island wind farm, from Montauk Point, on Long Island, New York on April 16, 2021. Credit: Mark Harrington/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: For Offshore Wind Energy, Bigger is Much Cheaper

By Dan Gearino

City Councilor Michelle Wu celebrates winning the election to become Mayor of the City of Boston on Nov. 2, 2021. Credit: Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s What the 2021 Elections Tell Us About the Politics of Clean Energy

By Dan Gearino

The Climeworks direct air capture plant, which draws in ambient air and releases it largely cleaned of CO2, at the Hellisheidi power plant near Reykjavik on October 11, 2021. Credit: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: How Should We Account for Emerging Technologies in the Push for Net-Zero?

By Dan Gearino

A Dominion Energy rendering shows a wind turbine installation vessel. Credit: Dominion Energy

Inside Clean Energy: Who’s Ahead in the Race for Offshore Wind Jobs in the US?

By Dan Gearino

The Tesla Inc. Model Y crossover electric vehicle during an unveiling event in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Friday, March 15, 2019. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Electric Vehicles Are Having a Banner Year. Here Are the Numbers

By Dan Gearino

A panel installer finishes installing electrical wiring at a solar array at a job site in East Charlotte. Credit: Logan Cyrus for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Don’t Like North Carolina’s New Energy Law, Despite Its Emission-Cutting Goals

By Dan Gearino

Workers install battery modules at the Manatee Energy Storage Center in Florida, being developed by Florida Power & Light. The project, on track to be complete by the end of the year, will have 409 megawatts of capacity, which would make it the largest battery storage project in the world by capacity. Photo Courtesy of Florida Power & Light

Inside Clean Energy: Taking Stock of the Energy Storage Boom Happening Right Now

By Dan Gearino

Glen Canyon Dam is seen next to the white "bathtub ring" of previously submerged rock, indicating record low water levels at Lake Powell as the drought continues to worsen on July 2, 2021 near Page, Arizona. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Drought is Causing U.S. Hydropower to Have a Rough Year. Is This a Sign of a Long-Term Shift?

By Dan Gearino

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