Safeguard facility reported emissions 2016–17

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14 May 2019

Important information for responsible emitters

The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Rule 2015 has been amended to extend the 2018–19 baseline application deadline from 31 October 2019 to 15 April 2020 for facilities with a declared multi-year period, that covers the 2018–19 and 2019–20 compliance years. It also allows facilities to use the transitional calculated baseline criteria a second time from the 2019–20 year onwards, to adopt newly established government-determined prescribed production variables. Further information can be found in the explanatory statement for this latest amendment.

This website includes references to prescribed (annually adjusted) and prescribed (fixed) production variables that are yet to be finalised by the Department of the Environment and Energy.

Applications will not be able to use prescribed production variables or default emissions intensities until they have been included in Schedules 2 and 3 of the Safeguard Rule.

For more information please contact the Clean Energy Regulator.

The safeguard mechanism commenced on 1 July 2016 and applies to all facilities that emit more than 100 000 tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂-e) emissions in a financial year (the reporting year). Emissions from covered facilities are reported through the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting scheme, by 31 October following each financial year.

Responsible emitters for covered facilities must ensure that they are not in an excess emissions situation on or after 1 March following each reporting year, and have a number of options available to manage any excess emissions.

The Clean Energy Regulator is required to publish information about all covered facilities for each reporting year. Information published includes the baseline emissions number in force for that year, total reported emissions, the responsible emitter(s) for each facility, and any Australian carbon credit units surrendered.

Under the safeguard mechanism, the Clean Energy Regulator is also required to publish emissions for grid-connected electricity generator facilities. See more information about electricity sector emissions and generation data.

2016–17 Reporting year summary

Description	Total
Facilities covered under the safeguard mechanism	203
Combined covered emissions (million tonnes CO₂-e)	131.3
Multi-year monitoring periods	6
Baseline variations	2
Australian carbon credit units (ACCUs) surrendered	448,097

Notes about this publication

Baseline number:

A facility may have been issued multiple baselines under the safeguard mechanism, however only one baseline applies in relation to the 2016–17 reporting year.
Baselines and other information that are withheld may be pending the submission of an application, or a decision under, section 25 of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (NGER Act).

Multi-year monitoring period determinations:

Under section 65 of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Rule 2015 (Safeguard Rule), responsible emitters may apply to the Clean Energy Regulator for a multi-year monitoring period to be declared in relation to a facility.
Where a multi-year monitoring period has been granted, the baseline emissions number for the facility is calculated as a single baseline number that applies across the entire multi-year monitoring period. At the end of the period, aggregate covered emissions for the two or three year period (plus or minus any Australian carbon credit units issued or surrendered) are compared against this baseline number to determine whether the facility is in an excess emissions situation.

Baseline variation for an improvement in emissions intensity:

Under section 46 of the Safeguard Rule, responsible emitters may apply to the Clean Energy Regulator for a facility’s baseline to be varied, where they can demonstrate that the emissions intensity at a facility has improved.
Provided the relevant tests are met, the facility’s baseline is varied to the level of covered emissions from the facility, for a particular financial year.

Australian carbon credit units (ACCUs) issued at a safeguard facility:

To avoid counting offsets twice, a facility that is covered by the safeguard mechanism and also generates ACCUs under the Emissions Reduction Fund will have any ACCUs that are issued during a financial year, added to its net emissions number.
This means that an affected safeguard facility’s net emissions number will be the total amount of covered emissions for the year, plus the total amount of ACCUs issued, minus any ACCUs surrendered. A new ‘Australian carbon credit units issued’ column has been added to the 2016–17 safeguard facility data table to flag those facilities where ACCUs have been added to a net emissions number.

The Clean Energy Regulator takes all reasonable efforts to ensure the information published on its website is accurate at the time of publication.

2016–17 Safeguard facilities data

The table below is a list of facilities covered under the safeguard mechanism for the 2016–17 reporting year. The 2016–17 Safeguard facilities data table was updated on 13 May 2019 to include resubmitted emissions data, ACCUs issued and the reporting of covered emissions previously withheld.

Downloadable version of the data table

Documentasset: 2016–17 Safeguard facilities data

Facility name	Responsible emitter	Baseline number	Reported covered emissions	Australian carbon credit units surrendered	Net emissions number
Angaston Operations	Adelaide Brighton Ltd.	246,443	149,650	Withheld	149,650
APLNG LNG Facility	CONOCOPHILLIPS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD	2,599,192	1,906,267	0	1,906,267
APN01 Appin Colliery - ICH Facility	ENDEAVOUR COAL PTY LIMITED	3,960,227	2,384,840	0	2,384,840
APU01 Pyrenees - AOA Facility	BHP BILLITON PETROLEUM PTY LTD	1,765,149	592,482	0	592,482
ARC01 Mining Area C - MNG Facility	BHP BILLITON IRON ORE PTY. LTD.	354,064	307,622	0	307,622
Ashton Coal Mine (Underground)	ASHTON COAL OPERATIONS PTY LIMITED	501,235	339,443	0	339,443
ATCO Gas Australia Pty Ltd	ATCO Gas Australia GP Pty Ltd	159,142	165,165	6,023	159,142
Aurizon Rail Freight NSW	AURIZON OPERATIONS LIMITED	134,160	104,248	0	104,248
Aurizon Rail Freight QLD	AURIZON OPERATIONS LIMITED	418,007	167,793	0	167,793
AusNet Gas Services	AusNet Gas Services Pty Ltd	169,898	163,901	0	163,901
Austar Coal Mine (Underground)	Austar Coal Mine Pty Limited	211,460	113,723	0	113,723
Australian Gas Networks (SA) Ltd	Australian Gas Networks Limited	300,947	206,161	0	206,161
Australian Gas Networks (Vic) Pty Ltd	Australian Gas Networks Limited	317,176	272,892	0	272,892
AWR Rail Freight WA	AUSTRALIA WESTERN RAILROAD PTY LTD	216,451	169,479	0	169,479
Ballera	Santos Limited	439,404	156,057	0	156,057
Bell Bay Smelter	RIO TINTO ALUMINIUM (BELL BAY) LIMITED	365,384	355,174	0	355,174
Beltana / Blakefield South	BULGA COAL MANAGEMENT PTY LIMITED	3,314,944	2,677,829	0	2,677,829
Bengalla Operations	Bengalla Mining Company Pty Limited	443,494	429,011	0	429,011
Big Lake Gas	Santos Limited	140,474	121,642	0	121,642
Birkenhead Operations	Adelaide Brighton Ltd.	944,301	816,162	Withheld	816,162
Blackwater Mine	BM Alliance Coal Operations Pty Limited	768,909	626,090	0	626,090
Boddington Mine	NEWMONT BODDINGTON PTY LTD	208,038	207,938	0	207,938
Boggabri Coal Minesite	BOGGABRI COAL PTY LIMITED	186,032	183,750	0	183,750
Boyne Smelters Limited	RIO TINTO ALUMINIUM LIMITED	1,052,982	996,650	0	996,650
Brockman 2 / Nammuldi Mines	Hamersley Iron Pty. Limited	316,854	266,172	0	266,172
Brockman 4 Mine	Hamersley Iron Pty. Limited	144,745	135,344	0	135,344
Bulga Opencut	BULGA COAL MANAGEMENT PTY LIMITED	673,617	441,453	0	441,453
CAN01 Cannington Silver and Lead Mine	South32 Cannington Proprietary Limited	143,326	123,826	0	123,826
Capcoal Mine	ANGLO COAL (CAPCOAL MANAGEMENT) PTY LIMITED	1,979,964	2,113,068	133,104	1,979,964
Carborough Downs Coal Mine	FITZROY (CQ) PTY LTD	769,935	201,008	0	201,008