Rod Kuckro has been a journalist in Washington for more than 40 years. He is currently a freelancer with a focus on energy and climate issues, having left full-time work at E&E News in March 2020 where for the previous six years he had reported on the rapid and disruptive transformation of electric sector business models with a focus on the issues, people and politics driving that transformation.

Prior to joining E&E, Rod was editor in chief for Platts’ electric power group where he oversaw three daily publications related to the US electricity and natural gas sectors. Before that he was editor of Oil Daily.

He began his career in Washington with Gannett News Service and after that corresponded for the Oakland Tribune and The Cincinnati Enquirer.

He joined McGraw-Hill’s Washington bureau in 1981, where he first covered U.S. energy policy following the run-up in oil prices after the Iranian revolution.

Over his career, he has covered the White House, Congress, the Federal Reserve and the development of the Internet and related telecommunications technologies.

He has been featured as an expert on CNN, CNBC, PBS and NPR, among others.

Rod is an alumnus of Georgetown University and lives in Alexandria, Va. with his wife Melissa.