Tagged: energy
- How Natural Gas, Heating Oil, and Propane Reach Homes
How the EIA describes the way natural gas, heating oil, and propane reach homes, are stored before winter, and what pushes winter prices up.
- How a Nuclear Power Plant Makes Electricity
How fission heats water, how steam spins a turbine and generator, and how the two U.S. reactor types differ in where water boils.
- How Solar Panels Turn Sunlight Into Electricity
How a solar cell converts sunlight into electricity, how cells become panels and arrays, and what an inverter does with the direct current.
- Why Electricity Prices Differ So Much by State
In 2025 the average retail price of a kilowatt-hour ran from 8.20 cents in North Dakota to 35.72 in Hawaii. What shapes that price.
- What the Price of Gasoline Is Made Of
The retail price of gasoline breaks into crude oil, taxes, refining, and distribution, and each part comes from somewhere different.