clean power plan
IE Questions: Will My Electricity Bill Go Up Under The Clean Power Plan?
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Will you pay more for electricity in the future? We look to the Energy Information Administration’s new analysis of the Clean Power Plan for answers.
Colorado
IE Questions: How Long Is Your Blackout?
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Reliable electric power is a given. Except when it’s not. How often does your power go out, and for how long? New data lets us answer that question.
IE Read Feed
Lower 48 Oil Production Outlook Stable Despite Expected Near-term Reduction In Rig Count
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U.S. EIA | The outlook for U.S. oil production holds steady despite 16 percent decline in number of active onshore drilling rigs.
Inside Energy News
Will Natural Gas Save The Planet? New Study Says No
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Replacing coal with natural gas to produce electricity wouldn’t significantly reduce carbon emissions, according to a study released today by University of California Irvine in conjunction with Net Zero and Stanford University.
Inside Energy News
IE Questions: Fossil Fuel Primer
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“Fossil fuel” is not exactly an obscure term. Most people have the basic understanding that fossil fuels–coal, oil and natural gas–were formed from the buried remains of ancient plants and animals, submerged under heat and pressure for hundreds of millions of years. But, just because they’re formed by the same process, doesn’t mean they are all one and the same.
Inside Energy News
Indian Lands And Fossil Fuels: North Dakota, Colorado, Utah Lead
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An analysis of Energy Information Agency data regarding fossil fuel production on Indian lands.
Colorado
Where You Dig Matters: Federal Land Sees Less Fossil Fuel Production
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Fossil fuel production on federal and Indian land is down over the past decade, in contrast to a big boost in production across the rest of the country. Why does it matter if the land that sits on top of fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas – is federal, Indian, or private? One word: money.
Inside Energy News
What Data Can And Can’t Tell Us About Our Winter Energy Consumption
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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 than last winter: $14.0 billion more, a 4.4% jump. Here’s what this data tells us:
As consumers, we spent more on energy as a whole this winter than last. We spent a little less (3%) on transportation. We spent 10% more on electricity.
Educator Resources
How Much Electricity Do You Use Each Month?
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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 are a perfectly average American living in a perfectly average household, your monthly electricity bill will read 911 kilowatt hours (kWh), which costs $114. But most of us don’t live in perfectly average households. (The state that comes closest to matching the average monthly electricity usage is Ohio).
