Delaware
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Delaware must cut climate pollution by 0.5 million metric tons of C02 equivalent a year.
Emissions in Delaware
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
14% of emissions in Delaware 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 358,000 buildings in Delaware and 42% of building systems are already electrified.
We need to electrify the remaining 208,000 buildings in Delaware. That's around 8,000 per year.
That will solve 14% of the problem.
🚗 Getting Around
33% of emissions in Delaware 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 416,000 vehicles in Delaware and 2,000 are already electric (0.5% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 414,000 vehicles. That's around 15,000 a year.
That will solve another 33% of the problem.
🔌 Power Generation
17% of emissions in Delaware 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 Delaware we need to close and replace:
1 coal plant
Indian River
Sussex County
804 MW
8 gas plants
Garrison Energy Center
Kent County
361 MW
McKee Run
Kent County
151 MW
NRG Energy Center Dover
Kent County
118 MW
Warren F. Sam Beasley Pwr Station
Kent County
96 MW
Van Sant
Kent County
45 MW
Red Lion Energy Center
New Castle County
25 MW
Brookside Newark
New Castle County
3 MW
AGT001 Centerville Fuel Cell
New Castle County
1 MW
5 oil plants
Hay Road
New Castle County
1,193 MW
Edge Moor
New Castle County
710 MW
Christiana Substation
New Castle County
52 MW
West Substation
New Castle County
20 MW
Delaware City
New Castle 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 793 MWs of wind and 825 MWs of solar.
Since Delaware already has 23 megawatts of solar power generation and 1 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 28 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 29 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That will solve another 17% of the problem.
🏭 Other Emissions
The last 35% of emissions in Delaware 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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