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To get to zero by 2050, Maine must cut climate pollution by
0.6 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent a year.

Emissions in Maine

Million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) emissions

This is how we're going to do it.

Maine's climate pollution, by source
🏭 Other: 21%🔌 Power: 6%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    Decarbonize Our Buildings

    🏭 Other: 21%🔌 Power: 6%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    29% of Maine'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 Maine's 759,000 buildings.

    In fact, 23% of buildings in Maine are already fossil fuel free!

    That means we only need to electrify the remaining 583,000 buildings in Maine. That's around 21,000 per year.

    Percent of Buildings electrifiedA chart showing the share of Buildings that have already been electrified and still based in fossil fuel.23.14% have been electrified, and the remaining 76.86% are fossil fuel based.Buildings ElectrifiedNot yet

    That cuts 29% of the pollution.

    🏭 Other: 21%🔌 Power: 6%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    Decarbonize Our Transport

    🏭 Other: 21%🔌 Power: 6%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    44% of Maine'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!

    Then, we'll electrify all 356,000 cars and trucks in Maine!

    There are 356,000 vehicles in Maine and 2,000 are already electric (0.5% of the total).

    We need to electrify the remaining 354,000 vehicles. That's around 13,000 a year.

    Percent of Vehicles electrifiedA chart showing the share of Vehicles that have already been electrified and still based in fossil fuel.0.5% have been electrified, and the remaining 99.5% are fossil fuel based.Vehicles ElectrifiedNot yet

    That cuts 44% of the pollution.

    🏭 Other: 21%🔌 Power: 6%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    Decarbonize Our Power

    🏭 Other: 21%🔌 Power: 6%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    6% of Maine's pollution comes from burning coal, gas, and oil to make power.

    Dirty power plant

    To cut this pollution...

    Put solar panels on your roof!

    Then, we'll replace all fossil fuel power plants with solar and wind farms.

    We need to replace dirty power plants with clean ones (mostly wind and solar)

    ...and find good jobs for those workers.

    Current Fossil Fuel Power Plants in Maine

    6 gas plants

    Name: Westbrook Energy Center County: Cumberland Megawatt Capacity: 564 Utility: Westbrook Energy Center

    Westbrook Energy Center
    Cumberland County
    564 MW

    Name: Maine Independence Station County: Penobscot Megawatt Capacity: 550 Utility: Casco Bay Energy Co LLC

    Maine Independence Station
    Penobscot County
    550 MW

    Name: Bucksport Generation LLC County: Hancock Megawatt Capacity: 298 Utility: Bucksport Generation LLC

    Bucksport Generation LLC
    Hancock County
    298 MW

    Name: Rumford Power County: Oxford Megawatt Capacity: 275 Utility: Rumford Power

    Rumford Power
    Oxford County
    275 MW

    Name: Androscoggin Energy County: Franklin Megawatt Capacity: 164 Utility: Verso Paper Androscoggin LLC

    Androscoggin Energy
    Franklin County
    164 MW

    Name: Eastern Maine Medical Center County: Penobscot Megawatt Capacity: 4 Utility: Eastern Maine Medical Center

    Eastern Maine Medical Center
    Penobscot County
    4 MW

    3 oil plants

    Name: William F Wyman County: Cumberland Megawatt Capacity: 863 Utility: FPL Energy Wyman LLC

    William F Wyman
    Cumberland County
    863 MW

    Name: Cape Gas Turbine County: Cumberland Megawatt Capacity: 35 Utility: FPL Energy Cape LLC

    Cape Gas Turbine
    Cumberland County
    35 MW

    Name: Robbins Lumber County: Waldo Megawatt Capacity: 13 Utility: Robbins Lumber Inc

    Robbins Lumber
    Waldo County
    13 MW

    Find the dirty plants near you

    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 2x the electricity we have today!

    In all, we'll need to build 1,000 MWs of wind and 1,000 MWs of solar.

    Since Maine already has 36 megawatts of solar power generation and 291 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 42 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 41 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.

    Percent of needed targetGeneration builtA chart showing the share of Solar and Wind capacity that has already been installed and rest to be installed. We are 13% of the way to what we need to be carbon neutral by 2050.MWs of targetGeneration Built

    That cuts 6% of the pollution.

    And gives us zero-emissions power we need to eliminate pollution from buildings and cars!

    🏭 Other: 21%🔌 Power: 6%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    Other Emissions

    🏭 Other: 21%🔌 Power: 6%🚗 Transport: 44%🏠 Buildings: 29%

    The last 21% of Maine'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:

    • 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

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