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Supplementary Industrial Allocation Guide to Data Collection
Bottoming cycle co-generation plant

This publication provides guidance to firms whose activities are potentially eligible for industrial allocation under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. This extra guidance is for firms that use electricity generated from bottoming cycle co-generation plants. This guidance is to assist them to comply with the requirements of the Gazette Notice when completing the documents required by that Notice.

Section 1: Introduction

On 26 March 2010, the Ministry for the Environment published Industrial Allocation Guide to Data Collection (the Guide). This was to help firms comply with the requirements of various Gazette Notices, issued under section 161D of the Climate Change Response Act 2002 (the Act) calling for data in relation to industrial allocation. The Notice requires information about activities to be submitted for the purposes of determining eligibility for allocation and the baselines for subsequent allocations. The Guide applies to all activities.

On 7 April 2010, the Ministry for the Environment published Industrial Allocation Guide to Data Collection: Multiple products (the Supplementary Guide I) to provide extra guidance in relation to activities for which more than one product (basis of allocation) is specified in the Gazette Notice.

This supplementary guide (the Supplementary Guide II) provides extra guidance in relation to how emissions from bottoming plant co-generation plants should be estimated and provided in the Data Form. The Ministry for the Environment anticipates that Supplementary Guide II will only be relevant to the activity of iron and steel manufacturing from iron sand. Firms should use the Supplementary Guide II in conjunction with the Guide and where appropriate the Supplementary Guide I when completing their Data Form, Bases of Preparation and Declaration. All the terms used in the Supplementary Guide II are consistent with the terms defined and used in the Guide.

Supplementary Guide II is designed to help firms that use bottoming cycle co-generation plants comply with the requirements of the Gazette Notice when completing the documents required by that Notice. It does not take precedence over the Notice itself, or any other associated legislation.