New Hampshire
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, New Hampshire must cut emissions by 3.8% a year
Emissions in New Hampshire
Million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) 
equivalent (MTCO2e ) emissions
Note: Grey area indicates missing data due to processing delays.
Source: WRI, Mar 2021
This is how we're going to do it
- Boilers and furnaces with heat pumps
- Gas stoves with electric induction stoves
- No-till farming to keep CO2 in the soil
- Capturing methane leaks from landfills
- Capturing CO2 to make emissions-free concrete
- Burning green hydrogen to make emissions-free steel
- Plugging methane leaks from gas pipelines
Decarbonize Our Buildings
29% of New Hampshire's climate pollution comes from buildings.
We burn fossil fuels to heat our air, water, and food.
To cut this pollution...
Let's electrify our heat!
We'll replace...
...in all of New Hampshire's 578,000 buildings.
In fact, 22.4% of appliances in buildings in New Hampshire are already fossil fuel free!
That means we only need to electrify the remaining 448,000 dirty buildings in New Hampshire. That's around 17,000 per year.
Source: Microsoft, Mar 2021; NREL, Dec 2021Electrifying all buildings cuts 29% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Transport
44% of New Hampshire's pollution comes from cars, trucks, trains, and planes.
But mostly from cars.
To cut this pollution,
your next car must be electric.
Or consider going car-free with public transit, bikes/e-bikes, car share, or other alternatives!
There are 461,000 vehicles in New Hampshire and 3,000 are already electric (0.6% of the total).
We need to electrify (or replace) the remaining 458,000 gas-powered vehicles. That's around 17,000 a year.
Source: DOT, Feb 2021Electrifying all transportation cuts 44% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Power
13% of New Hampshire's pollution comes from burning coal, gas, and oil to make power.
That's because of how power is generated in New Hampshire today.
Power Generation in the State of New Hampshire (2020)
But there's already 75% carbon-free electricity generation in New Hampshire!
To clean up the emissions from the polluting power plants we need to replace all fossil fuel power plants with solar and wind farms.
...and find good jobs for those workers.
Current Fossil Fuel Power Plants in New Hampshire
1 coal plant
3 gas plants
790 MW
606 MW
9 MW
5 oil plants
414 MW
19 MW
18 MW
7 MW
2 MW
But wait!
It's not enough to replace our power plants with wind and solar farms.
To power our electric cars and buildings, we need two times the electricity we have today.
In all, we'll need to build 1,000 megawatt (MW) of wind power and 1,000 MW of solar power.
Since the average wind turbine provides 2.75 MW of peak capacity, New Hampshire would need to install about 513 turbines.
Since New Hampshire already has 58 MW of wind and 22 MW of solar, that's 1,000 MW of wind power we need to build and 1,000 MW of solar power. That's around 52 MW of wind power and 45 MW of solar power a year.
Source: EIA, Apr 2022Decarbonizing all dirty power cuts 13% of the pollution.
And gives us zero-emissions power we need to eliminate pollution from buildings and cars!
Other Emissions
The last 13% of New Hampshire's climate pollution comes from other sources...
This includes farming, landfills, industry, and leaks from gas pipelines.
There's no one solution to solve these problems, but there are lots of great ideas:
That doesn't mean there's no solution, it just means that clean electrification doesn't help with these problems, and you could fill a whole book with covering all of them. We need to encourage our politicians to invest in researching new solutions and implementing existing solutions to these problems!
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