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ICN reporter Dan Gearinoa

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.

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The sign of the manufacturer of solar batteries, Sonnen GmbH, in the Bavarian village Wildpoldsried, southern Germany, is pictured on July 5, 2016. Credit: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images

Virtual Power Plants Are Coming to Save the Grid, Sooner Than You Might Think

By Dan Gearino

An aerial view of solar panels installed on the roof of buildings at a machinery equipment manufacturing industrial park in Yongzhou, Hunan Province of China, on June 7, 2023. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

Inexpensive Solar Panels Are Essential for the Energy Transition. Here’s What’s Happening With Prices Right Now

By Dan Gearino

Electric vehicles (EV) line up outside a Tesla dealership in Melbourne on April 19, 2023. Credit: William West/AFP via Getty Images

It’s the Features, Stupid: EV Market Share Is Growing Because the Vehicles Keep Getting Better

By Dan Gearino

Rowan Atkinson attends the UK Premiere of "Man Vs Bee" at Everyman Borough Yards on June 19, 2022 in London, England. Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

Regardless of What Mr. Bean Says, EVs Are Much Better for the Environment than Gasoline Vehicles

By Dan Gearino

The Milwaukee skyline with Lake Michigan in the background is seen at night on Jan. 6, 2020 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Credit: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images

Cities Stand to Win Big With the Inflation Reduction Act. How Do They Turn This Opportunity Into Results?

By Dan Gearino

Keely Fisher, an Ohio State University graduate student, is one of many people on campus who fear the ramifications of a legislative proposal that seeks to regulate discussions of climate policy in higher education. Credit: Dan Gearino

Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate Policies

By Dan Gearino

Reports from Brattle Group and Concentric Energy Advisors take opposing sides on questions about the effectiveness of competition in building transmission lines, and state lawmakers often don't have the expertise to know what to believe. Photo Illustration by Paul Horn

How Dueling PDFs Explain a Fight Over the Future of the Grid

By Dan Gearino

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, left, spoke during a press conference with cabinet members including Melissa Hoffer, right, the state's first climate chief. Credit: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Clean Energy Experts Are Stretched Too Thin

By Dan Gearino

People visit the booth of CATL, a major power battery maker, at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai, China Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Credit: Long Wei / Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images

A New Battery Intended to Power Passenger Airplanes and EVs, Explained

By Dan Gearino

An ENGIE employee walks past solar panels at the ENGIE Sun Valley Solar project in Hill County, Texas, on March 1, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Red States Stand to Benefit From a ‘Layer Cake’ of Tax Breaks From Inflation Reduction Act

By Dan Gearino

An image of Conesville Power Plant from animation drawn by Michael Schmidt.

Mourning, and Celebration: A Funeral for a Coal-Fired Power Plant

By Dan Gearino

Workers install solar panels on the roofs of homes under construction south of Corona, California on May 3, 2018. Credit: Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images

California Enters ‘Uncharted Territory’ After Cutting Payments to Rooftop Solar Owners by 75 Percent

By Dan Gearino

A view of high voltage transmission towers on Feb. 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Utilities Seize Control of the Coming Boom in Transmission Lines

By Dan Gearino

An array of electricity producing wind turbines are viewed along Interstate 10 on May 11, 2022 near Palm Springs, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

The Most-Cited Number About the Inflation Reduction Act Is Probably Wrong, and That Could Be a Good Thing

By Dan Gearino

Construction at the Double Black Diamond solar project in southeast Sangamon County on March 20, 2023 near Virden, Illinois. Photo Courtesy of Rich Saal/Swift Current Energy of Boston

Look Out, California: One of the Country’s Largest Solar Arrays is Taking Shape in… Illinois?

By Dan Gearino

Lithium-air battery cells photographed in the lab of Mohammad Asadi at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The cells, about the size of a button or a dime, are hooked up to battery analysis equipment. Credit: Illinois Institute of Technology

This Dime-Sized Battery Is a Step Toward an EV With a 1,000-Mile Range

By Dan Gearino

Coal miners, their faces smeared with coal dust in a coal mine, in Cumberland, Kentucky, around 1945. Credit: Curtis Wainscott/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production

By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino

An electric car charges at a Motor Fuel Group station on Sept. 29, 2021 in London, England. Credit: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

What’s the Future of Gas Stations in an EV World?

By Dan Gearino

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