Alaska
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Alaska must cut climate pollution by 1.4 million metric tons of C02 equivalent a year.
Emissions in Alaska
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
9% of emissions in Alaska 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.
We need to electrify the remaining 111,000 buildings in Alaska. That's around 4,000 per year.
That will solve 9% of the problem.
🚗 Getting Around
32% of emissions in Alaska 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 171,000 vehicles in Alaska and 940 are already electric (0.5% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 170,000 vehicles. That's around 6,000 a year.
That will solve another 32% of the problem.
🔌 Power Generation
7% of emissions in Alaska 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 Alaska we need to close and replace:
5 coal plants
Healy
Denali County
93 MW
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks North Star County
40 MW
Aurora Energy LLC Chena
Fairbanks North Star County
31 MW
Eielson AFB Central Heat & Power Plant
Fairbanks North Star County
31 MW
Utility Plants Section
Fairbanks North Star County
23 MW
13 gas plants
George M Sullivan Generation Plant 2
Anchorage County
418 MW
Beluga
Kenai Peninsula County
374 MW
Southcentral Power Project
Anchorage County
204 MW
Soldotna
Kenai Peninsula County
193 MW
Eklutna Generation Station
Anchorage County
171 MW
Anchorage 1
Anchorage County
121 MW
Nikiski Combined Cycle
Kenai Peninsula County
81 MW
Bernice Lake
Kenai Peninsula County
77 MW
International
Anchorage County
46 MW
TNSG North Plant
North Slope County
26 MW
Barrow
North Slope County
20 MW
Tesoro Kenai Cogeneration Plant
Kenai Peninsula County
16 MW
TNSG South Plant
North Slope County
8 MW
81 oil plants
North Pole
Fairbanks North Star County
181 MW
Lemon Creek
Juneau County
62 MW
Fairbanks
Fairbanks North Star County
42 MW
Industrial Plant
Juneau County
42 MW
Auke Bay
Juneau County
36 MW
Dutch Harbor
Aleutians West County
26 MW
S W Bailey
Ketchikan Gateway County
26 MW
Snake River
Nome County
26 MW
Jarvis Street
Sitka County
26 MW
Delta Power
Southeast Fairbanks County
23 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 189 MWs of wind and 260 MWs of solar.
Since Alaska already has 1 megawatts of solar power generation and 14 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 6 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 9 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That will solve another 7% of the problem.
🏭 Other Emissions
The last 52% of emissions in Alaska 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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