Texas
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Texas must cut emissions by 3.8% a year
Emissions in Texas
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
Decarbonize Our Buildings
3% of Texas'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 Texas's 10.7 million buildings.
In fact, 56.7% of appliances in buildings in Texas are already fossil fuel free!
That means we only need to electrify the remaining 4.6 million dirty buildings in Texas. That's around 176,000 per year.
Source: Microsoft, Mar 2021; NREL, Dec 2021Electrifying all buildings cuts 3% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Transport
27% of Texas'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 8.1 million vehicles in Texas and 52,000 are already electric (0.6% of the total).
We need to electrify (or replace) the remaining 8.0 million gas-powered vehicles. That's around 305,000 a year.
Source: DOT, Feb 2021Electrifying all transportation cuts 27% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Power
22% of Texas's pollution comes from burning coal, gas, and oil to make power.
That's because of how power is generated in Texas today.
Power Generation in the State of Texas (2020)
But there's already 31% carbon-free electricity generation in Texas!
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 Texas
16 coal plants
4,008 MW
3,397 MW
3,180 MW
1,850 MW
1,690 MW
1,674 MW
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159 gas plants
2,295 MW
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