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.
Pennsylvania Was Once a National Leader in Renewable Energy. What Happened?
By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino
Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus?
ICN Sunday Morning
Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania
By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino
Utility-Scale Solar Can Withstand Severe Hailstorms. Here’s How
By Dan Gearino
Coal Is Rising Along with Solar in the U.S. Power System, While Gas Loses a Step
By Dan Gearino
AI’s Massive Energy Demands
ICN Sunday Morning
To Handle Data Centers, the Electricity System May Need New Rules. Here Is a Proposal
By Dan Gearino
Despite Everything, US Solar Manufacturing Continues to Power Up
By Dan Gearino, Arcelia Martin
The Researcher Who Wrote the Book on How Solar Got Cheap Is Back to Assess the Current Moment
By Dan Gearino
Utilities Want to Regain the Ability to Build Power Plants in PJM. Consumer Advocates Say That’s Probably a Bad Idea
By Dan Gearino
Virtual Power Plants Showed Up for Their Biggest Test Yet. Here Are the Results
By Dan Gearino
Why Prices Are Soaring in the Country’s Largest Grid Region, Explained in 5 Charts
By Dan Gearino, Rambo Talabong
Federal Rooftop Solar Grants Are on the Chopping Block. Here’s Who Would Get Hurt
By Dan Gearino
Solar and Batteries Lead US Power Plant Additions by a Lot. How Does This Square With the Trump Administration’s Agenda?
By Dan Gearino
As Consumer Tax Credits Vanish, What Do You Need to Know?
By Dan Gearino
Consumers (and a Utility) Get a Win in Ohio, While Data Centers Take the Loss
By Dan Gearino
