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To get to zero by 2050, New Hampshire must cut climate pollution by 0.6 million metric tons of C02 equivalent a year.

Emissions in New Hampshire

Million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) emissions

We can do it. Here's how.

CO2 Equivalent Emissions in New Hampshire by Source
🏭 Other: 13%🔌 Power: 13%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    🏠 Buildings

    29% of emissions in New Hampshire comes from buildings.

    🏭 Other: 13%🔌 Power: 13%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    Mostly from different types of heating.

    Gas furnace, gas water heater, gas stove

    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.

    Electric heat pump, electric water heater, induction stove

    There are 578,000 buildings in New Hampshire and 22% of building systems are already electrified.

    We need to electrify the remaining 448,000 buildings in New Hampshire. That's around 16,000 per year.

    Percent of Building Systems electrifiedA chart showing the share of Building Systems that have already been electrified and still based in fossil fuel.22.41% have been electrified, and the remaining 77.59% are fossil fuel based.Building Systems ElectrifiedNot yet

    That will solve 29% of the problem.

    🏭 Other: 13%🔌 Power: 13%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    🚗 Getting Around

    44% of emissions in New Hampshire comes from cars, trucks, and planes.

    🏭 Other: 13%🔌 Power: 13%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    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.

    Gas emitting car being converted to electric car

    There are 461,000 vehicles in New Hampshire and 3,000 are already electric (0.6% of the total).

    We need to electrify the remaining 458,000 vehicles. That's around 16,000 a year.

    Percent of Vehicles electrifiedA chart showing the share of Vehicles that have already been electrified and still based in fossil fuel.0.6% have been electrified, and the remaining 99.4% are fossil fuel based.Vehicles ElectrifiedNot yet

    That will solve another 44% of the problem.

    🏭 Other: 13%🔌 Power: 13%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    🔌 Power Generation

    13% of emissions in New Hampshire comes from making power.

    🏭 Other: 13%🔌 Power: 13%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    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).

    We need to replace dirty power plants with clean ones (mostly wind and solar)

    In New Hampshire we need to close and replace:

    1 coal plant

    Name: Merrimack County: Merrimack Megawatt Capacity: 496 Utility: Granite Shore Power

    Merrimack
    Merrimack County
    496 MW

    3 gas plants

    Name: Granite Ridge Energy County: Rockingham Megawatt Capacity: 790 Utility: Granite Ridge Energy LLC

    Granite Ridge Energy
    Rockingham County
    790 MW

    Name: Newington Energy County: Rockingham Megawatt Capacity: 606 Utility: Essential Power Newington LLC

    Newington Energy
    Rockingham County
    606 MW

    Name: Hampton Facility County: Rockingham Megawatt Capacity: 9 Utility: Foss Manufacturing Company LLC

    Hampton Facility
    Rockingham County
    9 MW

    5 oil plants

    Name: Newington County: Rockingham Megawatt Capacity: 414 Utility: Granite Shore Power

    Newington
    Rockingham County
    414 MW

    Name: White Lake County: Carroll Megawatt Capacity: 19 Utility: Granite Shore Power

    White Lake
    Carroll County
    19 MW

    Name: Lost Nation County: Coos Megawatt Capacity: 18 Utility: Granite Shore Power

    Lost Nation
    Coos County
    18 MW

    Name: Dartmouth College Heating Plant County: Grafton Megawatt Capacity: 7 Utility: Dartmouth College

    Dartmouth College Heating Plant
    Grafton County
    7 MW

    Name: Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center County: Hillsborough Megawatt Capacity: 2 Utility: Crotched Mt Rehab Ctr Inc

    Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center
    Hillsborough County
    2 MW

    See a map of dirty power plants in the US

    ...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 1,000 MWs of wind and 1,000 MWs of solar.

    Since New Hampshire already has 22 megawatts of solar power generation and 58 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 48 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 41 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.

    Percent to Needed ElectrificationA chart showing the share of Solar and Wind capacity that has already been installed and rest to be installed. We are 4% of the way to what we need to be carbon neutral by 2050.Solar & Wind MWs InstalledRemaining to Install

    That will solve another 13% of the problem.

    🏭 Other: 13%🔌 Power: 13%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    🏭 Other Emissions

    The last 13% of emissions in New Hampshire comes other sources

    🏭 Other: 13%🔌 Power: 13%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    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:

    • Regenerative agriculture to sequester carbon in soil
    • Composting to reduce landfill methane emissions
    • New techniques for manufacturing CO2 emitting materials, like concrete
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