Under the Safeguard Mechanism, we must publish information about facilities in an excess emissions situation on or after the compliance deadline.
To understand the possible compliance outcomes for the responsible emitters of these facilities, visit managing excess emissions and our compliance approach.
Publishing requirements
We’re required to publish the following information about facilities in an excess emissions situation on or after the compliance deadline:
- the responsible emitter for the excess emissions situation
- when the excess emissions situation started
- if the excess emissions situation no longer exists – the date when the excess emissions situation ended.
Excess emissions situation table
The below table lists facilities in an excess emissions situation on the compliance deadline.
You can download the full table below, including more data fields.
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Excess emissions situation table (2.99 KB CSV)Publication notes
‘Excess emissions situation number on compliance date’ reflects the amount of tCO2-e that a facility’s net emissions number is above its baseline on the relevant 1 April compliance date. See more information about baselines and emissions data.
‘Excess emissions situation due to resubmission of data’ distinguishes between facilities that were:
- in excess on the relevant 1 April compliance date (listed as ‘No’)
- compliant on the relevant 1 April compliance date but have since fallen into excess due to a resubmission of their NGER data for the relevant financial year (listed as ‘Yes’).
‘Excess emissions situation start date’ refers to the day that the excess emissions situation started and is the first day after the relevant monitoring period finishes.
‘Compliance date’ refers to the 1 April compliance date following the end of the reporting period for the excess emissions situation.
‘Excess emissions situation end date’ refers to that day that the responsible emitter manages the facility’s excess emissions.
Under section 22XF of the NGER Act, responsible emitters have a duty to ensure that an excess emissions situation does not exist for their facilities on 1 April following conclusion of a financial year.
The maximum financial penalty for responsible emitters that contravene section 22XF of the NGER Act is the number of penalty units equal to the difference between:
- the net emissions number for the facility for the monitoring period
- the baseline emissions number for the facility for the monitoring period.
Additionally, under section 30(2C) of the NGER Act, a continuing contravention penalty of 100 penalty units accrues for each day that the excess exists during the 2-year period from that 1 April.
As at 1 April 2026, the value of a penalty unit is $330.