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.
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
Not So Beautiful for EVs
ICN Sunday Morning
Trump Issues Executive Order Targeting ‘Unreliable’ Clean Energy Options
By Dan Gearino
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Set to Slash Through U.S. Climate and Justice Drive
By Marianne Lavelle, Aidan Hughes, Amy Green, Arcelia Martin, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow
The Revised ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Still Contains a Poison Pill. A Tax Expert Explains
By Dan Gearino
A Former California Utility Exec Explains Why Your Electricity Bills Are So High
By Dan Gearino
What Does the ‘Big Beautiful’ Debate Tell Us About the Politics of the IRA?
By Dan Gearino
What Will Tariffs Do to the Energy Economy? Here Are Three Scenarios
By Dan Gearino
House Republicans Have Passed a Bill to Gut the IRA. What Happened to All the Supposed Holdouts?
By Dan Gearino
