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.
Inside Clean Energy: Illinois Faces (Another) Nuclear Power Standoff
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: What We Could Be Doing to Avoid Blackouts
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Climate Plan Shows Net Zero is Now Mainstream
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: What’s a Virtual Power Plant? Bay Area Consumers Will Soon Find Out.
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: How Soon Will An EV Cost the Same as a Gasoline Vehicle? Sooner Than You Think.
By Dan Gearino
Illinois and Ohio Bribery Scandals Show the Perils of Mixing Utilities and Politics
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Ohio’s Bribery Scandal is Bad. The State’s Lack of an Energy Plan May Be Worse
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: The Coal-Country Utility that Wants to Cut Coal
By Dan Gearino
Biden’s $2 Trillion Climate Plan Promotes Union Jobs, Electric Cars and Carbon-Free Power
By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino, Ilana Cohen, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys
Inside Clean Energy: Sunrun and Vivint Form New Solar Goliath, Leaving Tesla to Play David
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Fact-Checking the Energy Secretary’s Optimism on Coal
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Here Are the States Where You Save the Most on Fuel by Choosing an EV
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Rooftop Solar Could Lose Big in Federal Regulatory Case
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: The Racial Inequity in Clean Energy and How to Fight It
By Dan Gearino
Love is Blind: How Germany’s Long Romance With Cars Led to the Nation’s Biggest Clean Energy Failure
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Rooftop Solar Gets a Lifeline in Arkansas
By Dan Gearino