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.
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
Inside Clean Energy: As Efficiency Rises, Solar Power Needs Fewer Acres to Pack the Same Punch
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Wind and Solar Costs Have Risen. How Long Should We Expect This Trend to Last?
By Dan Gearino
Sale of North Dakota’s Largest Coal Plant Is Almost Complete. Then Will Come the Hard Part
By Dan Gearino
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
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
Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 5 States that Took Leaps on Clean Energy Policy in 2021
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Unpacking California’s Controversial New Rooftop Solar Proposal
By Dan Gearino
