Maryland
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Maryland must cut climate pollution by 2.5 million metric tons of C02 equivalent a year.
Emissions in Maryland
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
17% of emissions in Maryland 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 1.7 million buildings in Maryland and 45% of building systems are already electrified.
We need to electrify the remaining 912,000 buildings in Maryland. That's around 33,000 per year.
That will solve 17% of the problem.
🚗 Getting Around
41% of emissions in Maryland 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 1.8 million vehicles in Maryland and 18,000 are already electric (1% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 1.8 million vehicles. That's around 65,000 a year.
That will solve another 41% of the problem.
🔌 Power Generation
23% of emissions in Maryland 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 Maryland we need to close and replace:
5 coal plants
Chalk Point
Prince Georges County
2,553 MW
Morgantown
Charles County
1,548 MW
Brandon Shores
Anne Arundel County
1,370 MW
Herbert A Wagner
Anne Arundel County
1,059 MW
AES Warrior Run
Allegany County
229 MW
16 gas plants
Wildcat Point Generation Facility
Cecil County
1,114 MW
Dickerson
Montgomery County
933 MW
Keys Energy Center
Prince Georges County
831 MW
Rock Springs Generating Facility
Cecil County
774 MW
CPV St. Charles Energy Center
Charles County
746 MW
Perryman
Harford County
545 MW
Brandywine Power Facility
Prince Georges County
289 MW
Cove Point LNG Terminal
Calvert County
229 MW
Notch Cliff
Baltimore County
144 MW
Westport
Baltimore City County
122 MW
8 oil plants
Riverside (MD)
Baltimore County
257 MW
Vienna
Dorchester County
181 MW
Philadelphia
Baltimore City County
83 MW
Easton 2
Talbot County
39 MW
Easton
Talbot County
34 MW
Berlin
Worcester County
22 MW
Crisfield
Somerset County
12 MW
Smith Island
Somerset County
2 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 5,000 MWs of wind and 5,000 MWs of solar.
Since Maryland already has 194 megawatts of solar power generation and 59 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 169 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 157 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That will solve another 23% of the problem.
🏭 Other Emissions
The last 19% of emissions in Maryland 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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