Under the Safeguard Mechanism, we're required to publish information relating to emissions-intensity determinations (EIDs).
EIDs set out facility-specific emissions-intensity values for existing production variables at standard baseline facilities. Emissions intensity is one of several inputs used to calculate baselines for these facilities each financial year.
Most facility-specific emissions-intensity values are calculated for production variables at the facility using its historical production and emissions data. The emissions-intensity inputs to the baselines calculation for these production variables will transition from being facility specific to industry average by 2030. The industry average emissions-intensity values are determined by analysis conducted by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
Learn more about EIDs.
Publishing requirements
From the 2023–24 financial year onwards, we’re required to publish the following information about new and varied EIDs:
- the facility-specific emissions-intensity values of any historical, transitional or related production variables
- whether a production variable is a related or comparative production variable.
Emissions-intensity determinations table
Emissions-intensity determinations apply from the 2023-24 financial year. We will update this table as further emissions-intensity determinations are made.
The data includes emissions-intensity values for each facility’s existing production variables.
Publication notes
A production variable is historical if it was produced by the facility during any of the financial years from 2017-18 to 2021-22 and was not a non-commercial production variable.
A production variable is transitional if it was first commercially produced by the facility in the 2022-23 financial year. EID applicants have their transitional production variables set to the industry average emissions-intensity value that was in force during the 2022–23 financial year.
Emissions intensities can vary across facilities and do not necessarily show how a facility will perform against its baseline in each monitoring period.
We can vary an EID in certain circumstances, for example, to reflect a material impact on a facility’s emissions profile as a result of the facility moving to a higher order method for estimating its emissions.
This table does not include best practice emissions intensities, which apply to new facilities. These values are set by the department.