Oklahoma
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Oklahoma must cut emissions by 3.8% a year
Emissions in Oklahoma
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
5% of Oklahoma'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 Oklahoma's 2.2 million buildings.
In fact, 39.5% of appliances in buildings in Oklahoma are already fossil fuel free!
That means we only need to electrify the remaining 1.3 million dirty buildings in Oklahoma. That's around 50,000 per year.
Source: Microsoft, Mar 2021; NREL, Dec 2021Electrifying all buildings cuts 5% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Transport
24% of Oklahoma'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 1.2 million vehicles in Oklahoma and 3,000 are already electric (0.3% of the total).
We need to electrify (or replace) the remaining 1.2 million gas-powered vehicles. That's around 46,000 a year.
Source: DOT, Feb 2021Electrifying all transportation cuts 24% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Power
24% of Oklahoma's pollution comes from burning coal, gas, and oil to make power.
That's because of how power is generated in Oklahoma today.
Power Generation in the State of Oklahoma (2020)
But there's already 39% carbon-free electricity generation in Oklahoma!
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 Oklahoma
5 coal plants
2,088 MW
1,951 MW
1,889 MW
1,196 MW
350 MW
29 gas plants
1,734 MW
1,724 MW
1,434 MW
1,370 MW
1,214 MW
1,122 MW
1,070 MW
996 MW
974 MW
904 MW
658 MW
551 MW
535 MW
443 MW
338 MW
305 MW
294 MW
182 MW
163 MW
122 MW
122 MW
114 MW
90 MW
82 MW
56 MW
19 MW
9 MW
8 MW
4 MW
6 oil plants
29 MW
25 MW
9 MW
8 MW
4 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 5,000 megawatt (MW) of wind power and 5,000 MW of solar power.
Since the average wind turbine provides 2.75 MW of peak capacity, Oklahoma would need to install about 2,000 turbines.
Since Oklahoma already has 4,000 MW of wind and 15 MW of solar, that's 899 MW of wind power we need to build and 5,000 MW of solar power. That's around 35 MW of wind power and 207 MW of solar power a year.
Source: EIA, Apr 2022Decarbonizing all dirty power cuts 24% of the pollution.
And gives us zero-emissions power we need to eliminate pollution from buildings and cars!
Other Emissions
The last 47% of Oklahoma'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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