Over the past 15 years, the cost of rooftop solar installations have dropped 60%. This graph was used in Edison versus Westinghouse segment of the CSU/Inside Energy Spark! event . The data use...
Wyoming produces about 40% of U.S. coal but employs only 8% of coal miners. A coal worker in Wyoming produces about 10 times the amount of coal, on average, as a coal worker in Kentucky. Find out...
Over at the main Inside Energy website, you can see an explanation of why your phone, tablet or computer gets hot when it’s working hard. It included a mini-experiment where I had to know the w...
Here’s a nerdy detail that didn’t make it into part 1 or part 2 of our “Whatever happened to peak oil?” series. When we talk about peak oil, we so often focus on whether oil productio...
It was a bad winter, full of polar vortices and an endless march of blizzards. And according to data from the Energy Information Administration , Americans SPENT MORE ON HEAT THIS WINTER tha...
An average American household uses 903 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per month , enough energy to put your Volkswagen bug into space (if you were incredibly motivated). WHERE DOES THAT E...
An average American household uses 903 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity each month . That’s enough to power your household appliances and electronics, but WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO WITH 903 KWH...
When you look at your monthly electricity bill, you probably focus on the number with a dollar sign in front of it. But there’s another value listed: how much energy you actually used. If you...
INSIDE ENERGY PRODUCTION AND POLITICS A continuing energy boom in the Rocky Mountains and Northern Great Plains is reshaping the future of what’s powering America, and we’re launching a new...
BOOM STATE ENERGY FACTS: HOW PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION STACK UP Welcome back to the third and final post from Inside Energy’s introductory series on basic energy facts on the boom states of ...
Welcome to the second post from Inside Energy’s series on the basic energy industry facts in the Middle America Boom states of Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming. Yesterday, we took a lo...
At Inside Energy, we’re dedicated to making sense of what powers you. We’re starting with the basics: How much energy do we produce, and how much do we use? Our three focus states – CO...