Connecticut
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Connecticut must cut climate pollution by 1.5 million metric tons of C02 equivalent a year.
Emissions in Connecticut
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
28% of emissions in Connecticut 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 1.2 million buildings in Connecticut and 27% of building systems are already electrified.
We need to electrify the remaining 882,000 buildings in Connecticut. That's around 32,000 per year.
That will solve 28% of the problem.
🚗 Getting Around
38% of emissions in Connecticut 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 1.2 million vehicles in Connecticut and 9,000 are already electric (0.7% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 1.2 million vehicles. That's around 43,000 a year.
That will solve another 38% of the problem.
🔌 Power Generation
19% of emissions in Connecticut 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 Connecticut we need to close and replace:
44 gas plants
Bridgeport Harbor Station
Fairfield County
1,158 MW
Middletown
Middlesex County
1,097 MW
CPV Towantic Energy Center
New Haven County
842 MW
Lake Road Generating Company
Windham County
840 MW
Kleen Energy Systems Project
Middlesex County
693 MW
Milford Power Company LLC
New Haven County
578 MW
Bridgeport Energy
Fairfield County
520 MW
Devon
New Haven County
430 MW
Wallingford Energy, LLC
New Haven County
350 MW
Alfred L Pierce Generating Station
New Haven County
107 MW
20 oil plants
New Haven Harbor
New Haven County
642 MW
Montville
New London County
495 MW
GenConn Devon LLC
New Haven County
242 MW
South Meadow Station
Hartford County
167 MW
Waterside Power, LLC
Fairfield County
139 MW
Cos Cob
Fairfield County
115 MW
Branford
New Haven County
22 MW
Franklin Drive
Litchfield County
22 MW
Torrington Terminal
Litchfield County
22 MW
Norwich
New London County
19 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 4,000 MWs of wind and 4,000 MWs of solar.
Since Connecticut already has 131 megawatts of solar power generation and 1 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 134 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 124 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That will solve another 19% of the problem.
🏭 Other Emissions
The last 15% of emissions in Connecticut 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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