Nevada
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Nevada must cut climate pollution by 1.6 million metric tons of C02 equivalent a year.
Emissions in Nevada
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
11% of emissions in Nevada 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 1.0 million buildings in Nevada and 35% of building systems are already electrified.
We need to electrify the remaining 658,000 buildings in Nevada. That's around 24,000 per year.
That will solve 11% of the problem.
🚗 Getting Around
36% of emissions in Nevada 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 1.0 million vehicles in Nevada and 11,000 are already electric (1.1% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 1.0 million vehicles. That's around 37,000 a year.
That will solve another 36% of the problem.
🔌 Power Generation
31% of emissions in Nevada 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 Nevada we need to close and replace:
2 coal plants
North Valmy
Humboldt County
567 MW
TS Power Plant
Eureka County
410 MW
17 gas plants
Clark
Clark County
1,566 MW
Chuck Lenzie Generating Station
Clark County
1,466 MW
Tracy
Storey County
1,183 MW
Harry Allen
Clark County
745 MW
Walter M. Higgins III Generating Station
Clark County
688 MW
Silverhawk
Clark County
665 MW
Apex Generating Station
Clark County
601 MW
Desert Star Energy Center
Clark County
536 MW
Las Vegas Generating Station
Clark County
359 MW
Fort Churchill
Lyon County
230 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 3,000 MWs of wind and 3,000 MWs of solar.
Since Nevada already has 881 megawatts of solar power generation and 39 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 102 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 86 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That will solve another 31% of the problem.
🏭 Other Emissions
The last 22% of emissions in Nevada 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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