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Dan Gearino

Clean Energy Reporter, Midwest, National Environment Reporting Network

Dan Gearino covers the midwestern United States, part of ICN’s National Environment Reporting Network. His coverage deals with the business side of the clean-energy transition and he writes 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: Explaining the Record-Breaking Offshore Wind Sale

By Dan Gearino

A conceptual rendering of solar canopies covering part of Turlock Irrigation District's 110-foot-wide main canal, near Turlock, California. Credit: Turlock Irrigation District

Inside Clean Energy: In Parched California, a Project Aims to Save Water and Produce Renewable Energy

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines are shown on June 15, 2021 in Papalote, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Texas Is the Country’s Clean Energy Leader, Almost in Spite of Itself

By Dan Gearino

Close-up of a photovoltaic solar energy panel with reflection of the sun. Credit: Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Recycling Solar Panels Is a Big Challenge, but Here’s Some Recent Progress

By Dan Gearino

An installer for the solar company, Sunrun, uses a level while installing solar panels on the roof of a home in Granada Hills. Credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Is the California Coalition Fighting Subsidies For Rooftop Solar a Fake Grassroots Group?

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers, Dan Gearino

A sign warns of icy conditions on Interstate Highway 35 on February 18, 2021 in Killeen, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation

By Dan Gearino

The LS Power-Diablo Battery Energy Storage System, a 50,000kW energy storage project located in Contra Costa County, California. Credit: LS Power

Inside Clean Energy: In the New World of Long-Duration Battery Storage, an Old Technology Holds Its Own

By Dan Gearino

A solar park near Berlin. Credit: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: As Efficiency Rises, Solar Power Needs Fewer Acres to Pack the Same Punch

By Dan Gearino

A wind and solar farm on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 in Kern County, California. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Wind and Solar Costs Have Risen. How Long Should We Expect This Trend to Last?

By Dan Gearino

Water vapor streams away from the Coal Creek electric power plant at the Falkirk Mining Company in North Dakota on Jan. 9, 2010. Credit: Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images

Sale of North Dakota’s Largest Coal Plant Is Almost Complete. Then Will Come the Hard Part

By Dan Gearino

A Li-Cycle employee oversees lithium-ion batteries on a conveyor belt at the company’s plant near Rochester, New York. Photo courtesy of Li-Cycle.

Inside Clean Energy: Here Come the Battery Recyclers

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: In the Year of the Electric Truck, Some Real Talk from Texas Auto Dealers

By Dan Gearino

Protesters march to a rally outside of Lowry, Minnesota in March 1978 to try to stop construction of an interstate power line that would cut across the region. Photo by Luther Gerlach, a University of Minnesota anthropologist, who documented the protests as part of his work to understand social movements related to energy.

An Energy Transition Needs Lots of Power Lines. This 1970s Minnesota Farmers’ Uprising Tried to Block One. What Can it Teach Us?

By Dan Gearino

Power lines and power generating windmills rise above the rural landscape on June 13, 2018 near Dwight, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 5 States that Took Leaps on Clean Energy Policy in 2021

By Dan Gearino

People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar panels on their rooftops outside the California State Capitol Museum in Sacramento, California, on Dec. 8, 2021. Credit: Aníbal Martel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Unpacking California’s Controversial New Rooftop Solar Proposal

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Batteries Got Cheaper in 2021. So How Close Are We to EVs That Cost Less than Gasoline Vehicles?

By Dan Gearino

This compressed air energy storage plant in Goderich, Ontario, is one of the two small plants built by Hydrostor ahead of its current proposals to build much larger plants in California. The Goderich plant, completed in 2019, can discharge 1.75 megawatts for about six hours before needing to be recharged. Photo Courtesy of Hydrostor

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s How Compressed Air Can Provide Long-Duration Energy Storage

By Dan Gearino

Workers install photovoltaic panels on the roof of a fish processing plant on Nov. 16, 2021 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province of China. Credit: Yao Feng/VCG via Getty Images

The Clean Energy Transition Enters Hyperdrive

By Dan Gearino

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