Wisconsin
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Wisconsin must cut climate pollution by
4.6 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent a year.
Emissions in Wisconsin
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
13% of Wisconsin'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 Wisconsin's 3.2 million buildings.
In fact, 23% of buildings in Wisconsin are already fossil fuel free!
That means we only need to electrify the remaining 2.5 million buildings in Wisconsin. That's around 88,000 per year.
That cuts 13% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Transport
24% of Wisconsin'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 1.9 million cars and trucks in Wisconsin!
There are 1.9 million vehicles in Wisconsin and 6,000 are already electric (0.3% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 1.9 million vehicles. That's around 68,000 a year.
That cuts 24% of the pollution.
Decarbonize Our Power
30% of Wisconsin'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 Wisconsin
9 coal plants
Elm Road Generating Station
Milwaukee County
1,403 MW
South Oak Creek
Milwaukee County
1,260 MW
Weston
Marathon County
1,163 MW
Columbia
Columbia County
1,112 MW
Edgewater (4050)
Sheboygan County
834 MW
J P Madgett
Buffalo County
387 MW
Genoa
Vernon County
346 MW
Biron Mill
Wood County
62 MW
Kaukauna Paper Mill
Outagamie County
45 MW
35 gas plants
Port Washington Generating Station
Ozaukee County
1,548 MW
Riverside Energy Center
Rock County
1,402 MW
Pulliam
Brown County
671 MW
Fox Energy Center
Outagamie County
619 MW
12 oil plants
Manitowoc
Manitowoc County
213 MW
Diesel Generators
Dane County
54 MW
Cumberland (WI)
Barron County
22 MW
New Lisbon
Juneau County
9 MW
Fennimore
Grant County
7 MW
Elroy
Juneau County
7 MW
Grantsburg Diesel
Burnett County
6 MW
Winter
Sawyer County
6 MW
Washington Island
Door County
5 MW
Argyle
Lafayette County
5 MW
Marathon Electric
Marathon County
3 MW
WPPI Hartford DG
Washington County
1 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 8,000 MWs of wind and 7,000 MWs of solar.
Since Wisconsin already has 66 megawatts of solar power generation and 184 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 269 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 254 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That 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 Wisconsin'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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