Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00833:reg:8:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00833
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 7/11)
Character Range: 772481–775337

tonne.
Q is the quantity of sulphur, uranium or hydrogen (whichever is applicable) consumed during the year and measured in tonnes.
Z is the energy content of sulphur, uranium or hydrogen (whichever is applicable) consumed during the year and measured in gigajoules.

Chapter 7—Scope 2 emissions

7.1  Application
 (1) This Chapter specifies:
 (a) compulsory location‑based methods for determining scope 2 emissions from the consumption of purchased or acquired electricity, or the loss of electricity from an electricity transmission network or distribution network (method A1 under section 7.2 and method A2 under section 7.3); and
 (b) a voluntary market‑based method for determining scope 2 emissions from the consumption of purchased or acquired electricity (method B under section 7.4).
  (2) Methods A1 and A2 apply if the amount of purchased electricity consumed from the operation of a facility during a year that results in scope 2 emissions is more than 20 000 kilowatt hours.
Note 1:  Scope 2 emissions result from activities that generate electricity, heating, cooling or steam that is consumed by a facility but that do not form part of the facility (see regulation 2.24 of the Regulations).
Note 2:  An entity may use the voluntary market‑based method (method B) in addition to the compulsory location‑based methods to estimate scope 2 emissions. However, emissions estimated using the market‑based method should not be aggregated with emissions estimated using a location‑based method.
Note 3:  An entity may use the voluntary market‑based method (method B) regardless of the amount of purchased electricity consumed from the operation of a facility during a year.

7.2  Method A1—location‑based method—electricity purchased, acquired or lost from main electricity grid in a State or Territory
 (1) The following method must be used for estimating scope 2 emissions from electricity purchased or acquired from the main electricity grid in a State or Territory and consumed from the operation of a facility during a year:

where:
Y is the scope 2 emissions measured in CO2‑e tonnes.
Q is the quantity of electricity purchased or acquired from the electricity grid during the year and consumed from the operation of the facility measured in kilowatt hours.
EF is the scope 2 location‑based emission factor, in kilograms of CO2‑e emissions per kilowatt hour, for the State or Territory in which the consumption occurs as mentioned in Part 6 of Schedule 1.
 (1A) The method in subsection (1) must, subject to subsection (2), also be used for estimating scope 2 emissions released from electricity consumed from the operation of a facility during a year if the operation of the facility is constituted by an electricity transmission network or distribution network that is, or is part of, the main electricity grid in a State or Territory.