Under the
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) publishes a point-in-time extract of electricity sector emissions and generation data each year.
Unlike the
corporate emissions and energy data set, which is published at a controlling corporation level, the electricity sector emissions and generation data is published at a designated generation facility level.
A 'designated generation facility' is a facility whose principal activity is electricity production. Facilities that generate electricity for their own use or as a secondary activity are not included in this dataset.
From 2014-15, the CER also publishes total sectoral emissions and generation data—providing greater transparency in terms of how the sector is tracking in relation to the
sectoral baseline set under the Safeguard Mechanism.