Ohio
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Ohio must cut emissions by 3.7% a year
Emissions in Ohio
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
13% of Ohio'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 Ohio's 5.5 million buildings.
In fact, 27% of appliances in buildings in Ohio are already fossil fuel free!
That means we only need to electrify the remaining 4.1 million dirty buildings in Ohio. That's around 150,000 per year.
Source: Microsoft, Mar 2021; NREL, Dec 2021Electrifying all buildings cuts 13% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Transport
25% of Ohio'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 4.2 million vehicles in Ohio and 15,000 are already electric (0.3% of the total).
We need to electrify (or replace) the remaining 4.2 million gas-powered vehicles. That's around 157,000 a year.
Source: DOT, Feb 2021Electrifying all transportation cuts 25% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Power
30% of Ohio'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 Ohio
15 coal plants
Gen J M Gavin
Gallia County
2,600 MW
W H Sammis
Jefferson County
2,468 MW
Conesville
Coshocton County
2,175 MW
Cardinal
Jefferson County
1,880 MW
39 gas plants
Dynegy Hanging Rock II, LLC
Lawrence County
1,430 MW
Oregon Clean Energy Center
Lucas County
1,062 MW
Rolling Hills Generating LLC
Vinton County
978 MW
Clean Energy Future - Lordstown, LLC
Trumbull County
962 MW
36 oil plants
Eastlake
Lake County
1,289 MW
Bay Shore
Lucas County
665 MW
West Lorain
Lorain County
556 MW
Niles
Trumbull County
293 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 13,000 megawatt (MW) [?] of wind power and 13,000 MW of solar power.
Since the average wind turbine provides 2.75 MW of peak capacity, Ohio would need to install about 5,000 turbines.
Since Ohio already has 296 MW of wind and 107 MW of solar, that's 13,000 MW of wind power we need to build and 13,000 MW of solar power. That's around 483 MW of wind power and 485 MW of solar power a year.
Source: EIA, Apr 2022Decarbonizing all dirty power cuts 30% of the pollution.
And gives us zero-emissions power we need to eliminate pollution from buildings and cars!
Other Emissions
The last 32% of Ohio'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?
Learn how to electrify your own machines and pass local policy to electrify the rest
Take Action