New Jersey
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, New Jersey must cut climate pollution by 4.3 million metric tons of C02 equivalent a year.
Emissions in New Jersey
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
22% of emissions in New Jersey 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 2.6 million buildings in New Jersey and 19% of building systems are already electrified.
We need to electrify the remaining 2.1 million buildings in New Jersey. That's around 75,000 per year.
That will solve 22% of the problem.
🚗 Getting Around
47% of emissions in New Jersey 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 2.5 million vehicles in New Jersey and 30,000 are already electric (1.2% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 2.5 million vehicles. That's around 90,000 a year.
That will solve another 47% of the problem.
🔌 Power Generation
14% of emissions in New Jersey 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 New Jersey we need to close and replace:
2 coal plants
Carneys Point
Salem County
285 MW
Logan Generating Plant
Gloucester County
242 MW
50 gas plants
Linden Generating Station
Union County
2,121 MW
Kearny Generating Station
Hudson County
1,426 MW
Bergen Generating Station
Bergen County
1,419 MW
Sewaren Generating Station
Middlesex County
1,177 MW
Linden Cogeneration Facility
Union County
974 MW
Red Oak Power, LLC
Middlesex County
821 MW
Burlington Generating Station
Burlington County
819 MW
Woodbridge Energy Center
Middlesex County
773 MW
West Deptford Energy Station
Gloucester County
755 MW
Newark Energy Center
Essex County
735 MW
6 oil plants
Sherman Avenue
Cumberland County
113 MW
Forked River Power
Ocean County
77 MW
West Station
Cumberland County
27 MW
Haworth Water Treatment Plant
Bergen County
16 MW
Bayville Central Facility
Ocean County
8 MW
Overlook Medical Center
Union County
4 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 7,000 MWs of wind and 6,000 MWs of solar.
Since New Jersey already has 481 megawatts of solar power generation and 2 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 257 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 211 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That will solve another 14% of the problem.
🏭 Other Emissions
The last 17% of emissions in New Jersey 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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