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 baseline calculations 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
EIDs begin to apply from the 2023–24 financial year. We will update this table as further EIDs are made.
The data includes emissions-intensity values for each facility’s existing production variables.
You can download the full table below, including more data fields.
Publication notes
A production variable is listed with a ‘PV category’ of '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 listed with a ‘PV category’ of '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.
A production variable is listed with a ‘PV category’ of ‘related’ if it is a new production variable for the facility, but we have determined that it is substantially similar to a pre-existing production variable for the facility (the ‘comparative’ production variable). A related production variable has the same facility-specific emissions intensities (FSEI) number as the comparative production variable. FSEIs vary between facilities. They do not necessarily show how a facility will perform against its baseline in each monitoring period. This is because a facility’s emissions may vary between monitoring periods depending on the specific operational circumstances in that 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.
If a facility with an existing EID is restructured by being split into multiple facilities, or being included in another facility, we can make an EID for a facility in the new structure. This is based on the FSEI values in the original facility’s (or facilities’) EIDs for any production variables that the original and the restructured facilities have in common. This is called a ‘successor EID’, which are shown in the ‘Notes’ column of the table.
This table does not include best practice emissions intensities, which apply to new facilities or new production variables. These values are set by the department and are set out in Schedule 1 of the Safeguard Rule.