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.
How Does Your State Produce Its Electricity? The Variations are Wild and Weird
By Dan Gearino
Texas Leads U.S. Renewable Energy Generation by a Country Mile
By Dan Gearino
On a Test of Energy Democracy, Illinois Passes, Alabama Flunks and Everyone Else Is In-Between
By Dan Gearino
Conservatives Win in Germany, But New Chancellor Will Be Limited in Ability to Make Big Changes to Climate and Energy Policy
By Dan Gearino
EV Battery Manufacturing Capacity Will Rise When 10 New Plants Come Online This Year. But Can They Thrive in Chaos?
By Dan Gearino
Trump’s New Energy Secretary Called Germany’s Energy Transition ‘Unreliable.’ But He Missed All the Nuance
By Dan Gearino
Flexibility Will Go a Long Way Toward Managing the Grid of the Near Future, Researchers Say
By Dan Gearino
His Decades of Advocacy Saved You Money While Fighting Climate Change. Here’s His Advice for This Moment
By Dan Gearino
Moss Landing Battery Fire Leads to Health Fears, Evidence of Contamination and Concerns About Overreaction
By Dan Gearino, Kiley Price
DeepSeek’s Emergence Shows the Power Sector’s AI Dreams May Not Proceed as Expected
By Dan Gearino
Are We Doing This Again? Home Efficiency Pros Are Wary as Ohio Gets Federal Rebates, Just a Few Years After State Funding Was Yanked
By Dan Gearino
Making Sense of the Giant Fire that Could Set Back Energy Storage
By Dan Gearino
Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge
By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna
Buckle Up for a ‘Weird Moment’ in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market, Even as Global Sales Have Soared
By Dan Gearino
Has Trump Changed the Retirement Plans for the Country’s Largest Coal Plants?
By Dan Gearino
What to Expect from State Governments on Renewable Energy Policy in 2025
By Dan Gearino
