Clean Power Plan -- Proposed State Goals

On June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under President Obamas Clima
proposed a commonsense plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants.
The Clean Power Plan proposes a goal for each state. Each goal is a pollution-to-power ratio
meet in 2030 after implementing the measures they choose.

The basic formula for the state goal is a rate: CO2 emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plan
(lbs) divided by state electricity generation from fossil-fuel fired power plants and certain low
emitting power sources in megawatt hours (MWh).

Each states goal is different, because each state has a unique mix of emissions and power s
to each part of the formula.This is a fair and equitable approach because the formula is appl
all states.

These state goals are not requirements on individual fossil fuel fired electric generating unit
lay out a set of required mechanisms a state must use to reduce carbon pollution. Rather, e
broad flexibility to lower the states pollution-to-power ratio to meet the goal by 2030.

To set the goals, EPA analyzed the practical and affordable strategies that states and utilities
using to lower carbon pollution from the power sector to determine the Best System of Emis
(BSER)

Because the power sector is interconnected, EPA determined that a set of 4 measures togeth
system to reduce carbon pollution from fossil fuel fired power plants.

The best system is made up of four building blocks that are being implemented now by state
and can be implemented more broadly across the power system :
(1) measures to make coal plants more efficient,
(2) increased use of high efficiency, natural gas combined cycle plants,
(3) generating electricity from low/zero emitting facilities, and
(4) demand-side energy efficiency.

Each state has the flexibility to choose how to meet the goal using a combination of measur
particular circumstances and policy objectives. States are in charge of these programs and c
wide range of tools not just the building blocks.

The following table is a summary of the information about states and their proposed state g
Clean Power Plan where you live map.

State Data

State
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma

2012 Emissions
(million metric
tons)
68.56
1.96
36.71
36.23
43.73
38.45
6.04
4.36
107.60
57.02
4.73
0.64
87.19
91.78
34.67
31.16
82.89
44.52
1.63
18.30
11.91
63.38
25.42
23.50
70.93
16.26
24.64
14.05
4.21
11.83
15.73
31.58
53.13
30.27
92.86
47.86

2012 Energy
Output
(TWh)*
104.64
3.20
55.69
48.70
138.04
49.45
17.40
7.79
197.60
83.80
6.77
4.15
101.44
105.23
49.26
35.41
84.69
66.97
8.21
21.57
28.40
82.40
38.13
45.86
79.64
15.97
27.04
31.36
10.26
27.98
21.87
70.85
71.17
33.47
110.65
76.07

2012 Fossil Rate

(lbs/MWh)
1,518
1,368
1,551
1,722
900
1,959
844
1,255
1,238
1,598
1,783
858
2,189
1,991
2,197
2,320
2,166
1,533
873
2,029
1,001
1,814
2,013
1,140
2,010
2,439
2,162
1,091
1,119
1,035
1,798
1,096
1,772
2,368
1,897
1,562

State
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

2012 Emissions
(million metric
tons)
6.96
105.83
3.39
32.57
3.02
37.41
223.15
27.96
24.83
6.68
65.61
38.39
45.36

2012 Energy
Output
(TWh)*
21.40
151.46
8.24
45.23
5.86
43.33
378.96
34.00
42.20
19.30
71.64
46.33
47.28

2012 Fossil Rate

(lbs/MWh)
1,081
1,627
918
1,791
2,256
2,015
1,420
1,874
1,438
1,379
2,056
1,988
2,331

*includes existing non-hydro renewable energy generation and approximately 6% of nuclear

2012 emission rate shown here has not been adjusted for any incremental end-use energy e
improvements that states may make as part of their plans to reach these state goals.

Each state goal is based on public, historical data. This includes data from fossil fuel power p
hourly CO2 emissions, EIA data about renewables and energy efficiency, and data from eGR
patterns and potential.

For additional information on how EPA calculated state emission rate goals under the
Clean Power Plan, download the "Technical Support Document: Goal Computation" d

http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards/clean-power-plan-proposed-rule-technical-d

After reviewing the Goal Computation document, you can find the underlying state-le
calculations for the proposed state goals in spreadsheets at:

http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards/clean-power-plan-proposed-rule-technical-

Technical Support Document: Goal Computation - Appendix 1 and 2 contains the agg
level data, calculations and proposed state emission rate goal. Appendix 7 contains
plant-level data and unit-level inventory for each state.

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2012 Fossil,
Renewable and
Nuclear Rate
(lbs/MWh)
1,444
1,351
1,453
1,640
698
1,714
765
1,234
1,200
1,500
1,540
339
1,895
1,923
1,552
1,940
2,158
1,466
437
1,870
925
1,696
1,470
1,130
1,963
2,245
2,009
988
905
932
1,586
983
1,646
1,994
1,850
1,387

2030 State Goal

(lbs/MWh)
1,059
1,003
702
910
537
1,108
540
841
740
834
1,306
228
1,271
1,531
1,301
1,499
1,763
883
378
1,187
576
1,161
873
692
1,544
1,771
1,479
647
486
531
1,048
549
992
1,783
1,338
895

2012 Fossil,
Renewable and
Nuclear Rate
(lbs/MWh)
717
1,540
907
1,587
1,135
1,903
1,298
1,813
1,297
763
2,019
1,827
2,115

2030 State Goal

(lbs/MWh)
372
1,052
782
772
741
1,163
791
1,322
810
215
1,620
1,203
1,714

pproximately 6% of nuclear generation. The

cremental end-use energy efficiency
ch these state goals.

data from fossil fuel power plants about their

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