by Georgi Todorov | Oct 3, 2026 | Living Green, Science
No. Natural gas is not a renewable energy source. It is a fossil fuel that formed over millions to hundreds of millions of years, and the supply in the ground is finite. The one exception is renewable natural gas (RNG) made from landfill and farm waste, which the EIA...
by Georgi Todorov | Oct 3, 2026 | Living Green, Science
A kilowatt (kW) measures power, the rate at which electricity is used or produced at one moment. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) measures energy, the total amount used over time: 1 kWh is 1 kW running for 1 hour. Think of kW as speed and kWh as distance. Your utility bills you...
by Georgi Todorov | Oct 3, 2026 | Living Green, Science
A typical new US land-based wind turbine (3.8 MW) produces about 11,300 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity a year, enough for roughly 1,050 average American homes. That works out to about 943 MWh a month, 31 MWh a day and 1.3 MWh an hour on average. The exact number...
by Georgi Todorov | Oct 3, 2026 | Living Green
The average US home paid 16.48 cents per kWh for electricity in 2024, and the cost by state ranged from 11.51 cents in North Dakota to 42.86 cents in Hawaii (EIA, final 2024 data). That is a gap of almost four to one for the same kilowatt-hour. Preliminary EIA data...
by Georgi Todorov | Oct 3, 2026 | Living Green
The average US house uses about 863 kWh of electricity per month, which is roughly 10,356 kWh per year or 28 kWh per day (2024, EIA). That is an average across 143 million residential customers, from small apartments to large all-electric homes. Your own number can...
