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: For Offshore Wind Energy, Bigger is Much Cheaper
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Here’s What the 2021 Elections Tell Us About the Politics of Clean Energy
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: How Should We Account for Emerging Technologies in the Push for Net-Zero?
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Who’s Ahead in the Race for Offshore Wind Jobs in the US?
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Electric Vehicles Are Having a Banner Year. Here Are the Numbers
By Dan Gearino
Environmental Groups Don’t Like North Carolina’s New Energy Law, Despite Its Emission-Cutting Goals
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Taking Stock of the Energy Storage Boom Happening Right Now
By Dan Gearino
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
Inside Clean Energy: Here’s Why Some Utilities Support, and Others Are Wary of, the Federal Clean Energy Proposal
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here’s Why That Helps the Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources
By Dan Gearino
Illinois Now Boasts the ‘Most Equitable’ Climate Law in America. So What Will That Mean?
By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: In Illinois, an Energy Bill Passes That Illustrates the Battle Lines of the Broader Energy Debate
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: In California, the World’s Largest Battery Storage System Gets Even Larger
By Dan Gearino
After a Clash Over Costs and Carbon, a Minnesota Utility Wants to Step Back from Its Main Electricity Supplier
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Vote Solar’s Leader Is Stepping Down. Here’s What He and His Group Built
By Dan Gearino
Illinois Solar Companies Say They Are ‘Held Hostage’ by Statehouse Gridlock
By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase
