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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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Inside Clean Energy: Solar Industry Wins Big in Kentucky Ruling

By Dan Gearino

A starry night over the Mitten Buttes in Monument Valley, Arizona. Credit: Xavi Talleda/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Arizona’s Energy Plan Unravels

By Dan Gearino

Contractors work on single-family homes under construction in the Cadence Park development of The Great Park Neighborhoods in Irvine, California, on April 14, 2021. Credit: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

California Proposal Embraces All-Electric Buildings But Stops Short of Gas Ban

By Dan Gearino

The Indian Point nuclear power plant is seen March 18, 2011 in Buchanan, New York. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Indian Point Nuclear Plant Reaches a Contentious End

By Dan Gearino

Emissions rise from stacks the Duke Energy Corp. Gibson Station power plant at dusk in Owensville, Indiana, on Thursday, July 23, 2015. Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

One of the Country’s 10 Largest Coal Plants Just Got a Retirement Date. What About the Rest?

By Dan Gearino

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen smiles as she stands on a boat with wind turbines of the Middelgrunden offshore wind farm in the background, in Oeresund between Denmark and Sweden, outside Copenhagen, on April 22, 2021. Credit: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Denmark Makes the Most of its Brief Moment at the Climate Summit

By Dan Gearino

Blades from a wind turbine rotate in a field, April 16, 2021 near Eldorado, Texas. Credit: Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Some Straight Talk about Renewables and Reliability

By Dan Gearino

Texas Politicians Aim to Penalize Wind and Solar in Response to Outages. Are Renewables Now Strong Enough to Defend Themselves?

By Dan Gearino

Contractors install SunRun Inc. solar panels on the roof of a new home at the Westline Homes Willowood Cottages community in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 15, 2018. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Rooftop Solar Income Gap Is (Slowly) Shrinking

By Dan Gearino

Contractors move a SunRun Inc. solar panel up a ladder to the roof of a new home at the Westline Homes Willowood Cottages community in Sacramento, California, on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Coast-to-Coast Battle Over Rooftop Solar

By Dan Gearino

The Pine Tree Wind Farm and Solar Power Plant in the Tehachapi Mountains on March 23, 2021 in Kern County, California. Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: What Happens When Solar Power Gets Much, Much Cheaper?

By Dan Gearino

A farmer feeds cows in front of wind turbines that stand at the Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge in Fowler, Indiana on Aug. 3, 2016. Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Wind Energy Is a Big Business in Indiana, Leading to Awkward Alliances

By Dan Gearino

A Volkswagen ID 3 electric car is seen in a glass cage during a press conference in Berlin on May 8, 2019. Credit: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Well That Was Fast: Volkswagen Quickly Catching Up to Tesla

By Dan Gearino

Mark Reuss, General Motors president speaks at their Detroit- Hamtramck assembly plant on Jan. 27, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

The Solid-State Race: Legacy Automakers Reach for Battery Breakthrough

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines generate electricity at the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm near Palm Springs, California. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Where Can We Put All Those Wind Turbines?

By Dan Gearino

Japanese Police wearing protective suits search for tsunami victims about 12 miles away from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on April 7, 2011 in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Credit: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: 10 Years After Fukushima, Safety Is Not the Biggest Problem for the US Nuclear Industry

By Dan Gearino

Center Street, near the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley was the first city in the United States to pass an ordinance that banned natural gas hookups in new construction. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

A Furious Industry Backlash Greets Moves by California Cities to Ban Natural Gas in New Construction

By Dan Gearino

Philanthropist Warren Buffett is joined onstage by 24 other philanthropist and influential business people featured on the Forbes list of 100 Greatest Business Minds during the Forbes Media Centennial Celebration at Pier 60 on September 19, 2017 in New York City. Credit: Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Warren Buffett Explains the Need for a Massive Energy Makeover

By Dan Gearino

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