These guides can help you meet your reporting obligations under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.

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Administrative guides

This guide can help you understand:

  • aggregating facility data
  • percentage reporting
  • incidental reporting
  • optional reporting of small amounts of fuel combustion and electricity consumption.

Download Guidance on aggregated facility reporting percentage estimates and incidental emissions and energy.

This guide includes basic information about EERS. It can help you:

  • develop a familiarity with EERS
  • create or modify your corporation structure
  • report activity data
  • generate and submit a report.

Download Emissions and Energy Reporting System user guide.

This guide helps you understand and fix validation messages that may appear in the EERS.

Download EERS validation errors and warning messages guideline.

Sector-specific guidelines

We encourage you to read the relevant guide before submitting a report required under section 19, 22G or 22X of the Act.

This guide can help you estimate the emissions of coal mining facilities.

Download Estimating emissions and energy from coal mining guideline.

This guide can help you estimate the emissions from electricity generation and related facilities.

Download Estimating emissions and energy in the electricity generation, transmission, and distribution sectors guideline

This guide can help you estimate emissions in the electricity sector.

Download Estimating emissions and energy from industrial processes guidance.

This guide can help you report within the solid waste sector.

Download Estimating emissions and energy from solid waste and landfill biogas management guideline.

This guide can help you report within the wastewater handling sector.

Download Estimating emissions and energy from wastewater handling - domestic, commercial and industrial guideline.

This guide helps you report within the fuel combustion sector.

Download Estimating emissions and energy from fuel combustion guideline

Activity-based guidelines

This guide outlines what you must report if you consume, produce or use:

  • blended fuels
  • other fuel mixes
  • bitumen
  • explosives.

Download Reporting blended fuels, other fuel mixes, bitumen and explosives guideline

This guide outlines the requirements for using methods 2 and 3 for landfill site planning and verification.

Download Landfill site plan and verification requirements - methods 2 and 3

This guide helps you define and report energy production and consumption.

Download Reporting energy production and consumption guideline

This guide helps you define and report on hydrofluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride.

Download Reporting hydrofluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride gases guideline.

This guide helps you understand measurement criteria A, AA, AAA and BBB.

Download Methods and measurement criteria guideline

This guide helps you measure and report consumption of petroleum based oils and greases.

Download Guideline - reporting petroleum-based oils and greases other than petroleum-based oils and greases used as fuel

This guide helps you report uncertainty. It includes background information and instructions on how to report in the EERS.

Download Reporting uncertainty guideline.