Kansas
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Kansas must cut emissions by 3.7% a year
Emissions in Kansas
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
6% of Kansas'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 Kansas's 1.6 million buildings.
In fact, 29% of appliances in buildings in Kansas are already fossil fuel free!
That means we only need to electrify the remaining 1.1 million dirty buildings in Kansas. That's around 42,000 per year.
Source: Microsoft, Mar 2021; NREL, Dec 2021Electrifying all buildings cuts 6% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Transport
18% of Kansas'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 889,000 vehicles in Kansas and 3,000 are already electric (0.4% of the total).
We need to electrify (or replace) the remaining 886,000 gas-powered vehicles. That's around 33,000 a year.
Source: DOT, Feb 2021Electrifying all transportation cuts 18% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Power
21% of Kansas's pollution comes from burning coal, gas, and oil to make power.
To cut this pollution...
Put solar panels on your roof!
Then, we'll replace all fossil fuel power plants with solar and wind farms.
...and find good jobs for those workers.
Current Fossil Fuel Power Plants in Kansas
5 coal plants
Jeffrey Energy Center
Pottawatomie County
2,160 MW
La Cygne
Linn County
1,599 MW
Nearman Creek
Wyandotte County
671 MW
Lawrence Energy Center
Douglas County
604 MW
Holcomb
Finney County
349 MW
52 gas plants
Gordon Evans Energy Center
Sedgwick County
904 MW
Osawatomie Generating Station
Miami County
741 MW
Emporia Energy Center
Lyon County
730 MW
Hutchinson Energy Center
Reno County
539 MW
29 oil plants
Quindaro
Wyandotte County
388 MW
Larned
Pawnee County
29 MW
Holton
Jackson County
22 MW
Colby City of
Thomas County
20 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 3,000 megawatt (MW) [?] of wind power and 3,000 MW of solar power.
Since the average wind turbine provides 2.75 MW of peak capacity, Kansas would need to install about 1,000 turbines.
Since Kansas already has 3,000 MW of wind and 14 MW of solar, that's 173 MW of wind power we need to build and 3,000 MW of solar power. That's around 6 MW of wind power and 118 MW of solar power a year.
Source: EIA, Apr 2022Decarbonizing all dirty power cuts 21% of the pollution.
And gives us zero-emissions power we need to eliminate pollution from buildings and cars!
Other Emissions
The last 54% of Kansas'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!
Ready to do your part?
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