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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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Solar photovoltaic power plant farm installation on Long Island, New York. Ohio now ranks 28th in the country in installed solar capacity, but ranks 14th in projected new capacity coming online in the next five years. Credit: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Solar Boom Arrives in Ohio

By Dan Gearino

Two cyclists ride on the car-free section of Friedrichstraße in Berlin, where a speed limit of 20 kilometers per hour (12 mph) applies. Credit: Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images

Trains, Walking, Biking: Why Germany Needs to Look Beyond Cars

By Dan Gearino

PacifiCorp's Hunter coal fired power pant releases steam as it burns coal outside of Castle Dale, Utah on Nov. 14, 2019. Credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Era of Fossil Fuel Power Plants Is Rapidly Receding. Here Is Their Life Expectancy

By Dan Gearino

Stalks of corn are seen near York, Nebraska. The state is steadily increasing its use of renewable energy, helped by strong winds. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Transition Comes to Nebraska

By Dan Gearino

A saguaro cactus is seen against the blue sky in Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Despite rich solar resources, Arizona's policies have often been unfriendly to solar power. But that's changing with the adoption of a statewide plan to get to 100 percent ca

Inside Clean Energy: Arizona’s Net-Zero Plan Unites Democrats and Republicans

By Dan Gearino

President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media while flanked by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, at the Queen Theater after receiving a briefing from the transition Covid-19 advisory board on Nov. 9, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Joe Raedle/Gett

Inside Clean Energy: Four Things Biden Can Do for Clean Energy Without Congress

By Dan Gearino

Neil Chatterjee was demoted as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday. Credit: Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit

Trump Demoted FERC Chairman Chatterjee After He Expressed Support for Carbon Pricing

By Dan Gearino

Many Photovoltaik solar panels arranged as part of a solar powerplant. Credit: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Not a Great Election Year for Renewable Energy, but There’s Reason for Optimism

By Dan Gearino

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debates U.S. President Donald Trump at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Oil Industry Comments Were Not a Political Misstep

By Dan Gearino

The 2022 GMC Hummer EV is scheduled to go on sale in late 2021, with a price tag of $112,595 and a battery range of 350 miles. Credit: GM

Inside Clean Energy: The New Hummer Is Big and Bad and Runs on Electricity

By Dan Gearino

Solar panels work in an integrated power station in Yancheng city, in Jiangsu province, on Oct. 14, 2020. Credit: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Four Charts Tell the Story of the Post-Covid Energy Transition

By Dan Gearino

bucket-wheel excavator removes the first layer of soil for the expansion of the nearby Welzow open-pit lignite coal mine on August 20, 2010 near Drebkau, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

What Germany Can Teach the US About Quitting Coal

By Dan Gearino

Steel is produced at ArcelorMittal Gent on Sept. 5, 2007 in Ghent, Belgium. Credit: Mark Renders/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: A Steel Giant Joins a Growing List of Companies Aiming for Net-Zero by 2050

By Dan Gearino

One of the smokestacks at the Gavin power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, which is now owned by Lightstone Generation LLC, an independent power producer. It continues to operate while many others have closed or are scheduled to close as utilities announce plans

Inside Clean Energy: Net Zero by 2050 Has Quickly Become the New Normal for the Largest U.S. Utilities

By Dan Gearino

Luminalt solar installers install solar panels on the roof of a home on May 9, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: In South Carolina, a Happy Compromise on Net Metering

By Dan Gearino

Afternoon commuter traffic streams northward from Los Angeles on the State Route 14 freeway on May 13, 2020 in Newhall, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

In a Bold Move, California’s Governor Issues Ban on Gasoline-Powered Cars as of 2035

By Dan Gearino

Aerial view of a wind-solar hybrid photovoltaic power station on September 12, 2020 in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province of China. Credit: Li Zongxian/VCG via Getty Images

Get to Net-Zero by Mid-Century? Even Some Global Oil and Gas Giants Think it Can Be Done

By Dan Gearino

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O 2017 Conference on May 17, 2017 in Mountain View, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Google Ups the Ante With a 24/7 Carbon-Free Pledge. What Does That Mean?

By Dan Gearino

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