34General information that must be included in offsets report

34 General information that must be included in offsets report

An offsets report for a reporting period for a project must include the following information:

(a) if the project type is different from the type nominated in the section 22 application or section 128 application for the project or in a previous offsets report:

(i) the date on which the project type changed; and

(ii) details about how the project meets the requirements of the changed project type, in accordance with sections 8B to 8F;

(b) a list of the project activities that were carried out at each project treatment facility or project biomethane facility (as the case may be) involved in the project including:

(i) details of any additional project activity that began to be carried out after the section 22 application or section 128 application was made or since an offsets report was given to the Regulator, and the date on which it commenced; and

(ii) details of any project activity that had previously been carried out, that has stopped being carried out since an offsets report was given to the Regulator, and the date on which it stopped;

(c) a description of the sources of project emissions;

(d) if the project is a biomethane conversion and displacement project in which biogas has been used to generate electricity during the crediting period or crediting periods of the project—the total number of calendar months that biogas has been used to generate electricity between the start of the project’s first or only crediting period and the end of the reporting period;

Note: Under subsection 17A(3), any generation of electricity during 3 or more days in calendar month means that month is counted as a month in which electricity is generated from biogas and the months do not need to be consecutive. After generation has commenced, the generation is presumed to continue in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

(e) if biogas generation for biomethane has been carried out as part of the project— evidence that biogas sent to biogas upgrading systems is used to produce biomethane that can reasonably be expected to be combusted within Australia as a natural gas substitute:

Note: Evidence that biomethane produced by the project can reasonably be expected to be combusted within Australia as a natural gas substitute may include invoices or other records of commercial transactions in which biomethane is traded as a substitute for natural gas for a use that results in its combustion.

(f) if biogas generation for biomethane has been carried out as part of the project— evidence that biogas sent to biogas upgrading systems is used to produce biomethane that can reasonably be expected to be combusted within Australia as a natural gas substitute: