Alabama
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Alabama must cut climate pollution by 4.9 million metric tons of C02 equivalent a year.
Emissions in Alabama
Million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) emissions
We can do it. Here's how.
- Regenerative agriculture to sequester carbon in soil
- Composting to reduce landfill methane emissions
- New techniques for manufacturing CO2 emitting materials, like concrete
🏠 Buildings
3% of emissions in Alabama comes from buildings.
Mostly from different types of heating.
80% of the pollution of your typical home comes from heating your space, water, and food.
To stop this pollution, we need to replace our furnaces with electric heat pumps, electrify our water heaters, and cook with induction and electricity instead of gas.
There are 2.5 million buildings in Alabama and 61% of building systems are already electrified.
We need to electrify the remaining 968,000 buildings in Alabama. That's around 35,000 per year.
That will solve 3% of the problem.
🚗 Getting Around
24% of emissions in Alabama comes from cars, trucks, and planes.
Mostly from our cars.
To cut this pollution, if you have a car, your next one needs to be an electric vehicle (EV).
Or try going car-free with public transit, bikes/e-bikes, or walking if it works for you.
There are 2.0 million vehicles in Alabama and 3,000 are already electric (0.1% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 2.0 million vehicles. That's around 73,000 a year.
That will solve another 24% of the problem.
🔌 Power Generation
38% of emissions in Alabama comes from making power.
Specifically from coal, gas, and oil plants.
To cut this pollution, we need to replace all dirty power plants with clean ones (mostly wind and solar).
In Alabama we need to close and replace:
5 coal plants
Barry
Mobile County
2,842 MW
James H Miller Jr
Jefferson County
2,822 MW
E C Gaston
Shelby County
2,034 MW
Gorgas
Walker County
1,417 MW
Charles R Lowman
Washington County
1,265 MW
25 gas plants
Plant H. Allen Franklin
Lee County
2,684 MW
E B Harris Generating Plant
Autauga County
2,534 MW
Colbert
Colbert County
1,826 MW
Greene County
Greene County
1,288 MW
Tenaska Lindsay Hill Generating Station
Autauga County
939 MW
Central Alabama Gen Station
Autauga County
927 MW
Decatur Energy Center
Morgan County
902 MW
Morgan Energy Center
Morgan County
900 MW
Hillabee Energy Center
Tallapoosa County
823 MW
Calhoun Energy Center
Calhoun County
748 MW
1 oil plant
Crestwood Dothan
Houston County
14 MW
...and help those workers find good jobs.
But wait! Remember how we electrified all cars and buildings?
Our machines don't pollute now, because they run on electricity!
But that means we need to make more power for those new electric machines - twice as much power as we make now!
And all of it needs to be clean power!
So to cut the climate pollution from our power, cars, and buildings we need to INSTALL 7,000 MWs of wind and 8,000 MWs of solar.
Since Alabama already has 58 megawatts of solar power generation and 0 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 237 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 287 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That will solve another 38% of the problem.
🏭 Other Emissions
The last 34% of emissions in Alabama comes other sources
This includes industry, landfills, and farming.
There's no one solution to solve these problems, but there are a lot of great ideas!
These include:
Learn how to electrify your own machines and pass local policy to electrify the rest
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