New Mexico
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, New Mexico must cut climate pollution by
2.7 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent a year.
Emissions in New Mexico
Million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) emissions
This is how we're going to do it.
- Boilers and furnaces with heat pumps
- Gas stoves with induction ranges
- 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 New Mexico'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 New Mexico's 1.0 million buildings.
In fact, 23% of buildings in New Mexico are already fossil fuel free!
That means we only need to electrify the remaining 795,000 buildings in New Mexico. That's around 29,000 per year.
That cuts 5% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Transport
21% of New Mexico'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 624,000 cars and trucks in New Mexico!
There are 624,000 vehicles in New Mexico and 3,000 are already electric (0.4% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 621,000 vehicles. That's around 22,000 a year.
That cuts 21% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Power
24% of New Mexico'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 New Mexico
3 coal plants
Four Corners Steam Elec Station
San Juan County
2,270 MW
San Juan
San Juan County
1,848 MW
Escalante
McKinley County
257 MW
19 gas plants
Hobbs Generating Station
Lea County
666 MW
Valencia Power Plant
Valencia County
656 MW
Luna Energy Facility
Luna County
650 MW
Cunningham
Lea County
519 MW
1 oil plant
Quay County
Quay County
27 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 2x the electricity we have today!
In all, we'll need to build 3,000 MWs of wind and 3,000 MWs of solar.
Since New Mexico already has 254 megawatts of solar power generation and 1,000 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 49 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 92 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That cuts 24% of the pollution.
And gives us zero-emissions power we need to eliminate pollution from buildings and cars!
Other Emissions
The last 49% of New Mexico'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:
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