CER-RET-020

Appendix E: EITE activity summary

FORM
CER-RET-020
V2.112/01/2018

Exemption certificate – Production calculation method

under the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

The following table summarises the Emissions-Intensive Trade-Exposed (EITE)activities specified in Schedule 6 to the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001 (the Regulations) and the corresponding relevant product, electricity baseline and unit of measurement for each. The Regulations are amended from time to time and you should refer to the most recent version before submitting your application.

EITE Activity / Relevant product (see note 1) / Electricity baseline / Units
Alumina refining / alumina / 0.228 / MWh/t
Aluminium smelting / primary aluminium (Al) / 15 / MWh/t
Cartonboard manufacturing / pulp from either or both of woodchips and sawdust / 0.448 / MWh/t
Cartonboard manufacturing / rolls of cartonboard / 0.775 / MWh/t
Dry pulp manufacturing / pulp from either or both of woodchips and sawdust / 0.448 / MWh/t
Dry pulp manufacturing / rolls and bales of dry pulp / 0.404 / MWh/t
Integrated iron and steel manufacturing / coke oven coke / 0.0397 / MWh/t
Integrated iron and steel manufacturing / continuously cast carbon steel products and ingots of carbon steel / 0.145 / MWh/t
Integrated iron and steel manufacturing / flat products of hot-rolled carbon steel / 0.116 / MWh/t
Integrated iron and steel manufacturing / iron ore pellets / 0.0742 / MWh/t
Integrated iron and steel manufacturing / iron ore sinter / 0.0397 / MWh/t
Integrated iron and steel manufacturing / lime / 0.0405 / MWh/t
Integrated iron and steel manufacturing / long products of hot-rolled carbon steel / 0.133 / MWh/t
Integrated production of lead and zinc / lead metal equal to or greater than 99.97% / 0.355 / MWh/t
Integrated production of lead and zinc / lead metal of at least 99.5% but less than 99.97% / 0.371 / MWh/t
Integrated production of lead and zinc / zinc in fume (Zn) with a concentration of zinc equal to or greater than 60% / 0.82 / MWh/t
Manufacture of carbon steel from cold ferrous feed / continuously cast carbon steel products and ingots of carbon steel / 0.532 / MWh/t
Manufacture of carbon steel from cold ferrous feed / flat products of hot-rolled carbon steel / 0.116 / MWh/t
Manufacture of carbon steel from cold ferrous feed / long products of hot-rolled carbon steel / 0.133 / MWh/t
Manufacture of newsprint / pulp from either or both of woodchips and sawdust / 2.48 / MWh/t
Manufacture of newsprint / pulp from recovered paper / 0.431 / MWh/t
Manufacture of newsprint / rolls of uncoated newsprint / 0.697 / MWh/t
Manufacture of reconstituted woodbased panels / reconstituted wood-based panel / 0.372 / MWh/t
Packaging and industrial paper manufacturing / pulp from either or both of woodchips and sawdust / 0.448 / MWh/t
Packaging and industrial paper manufacturing / rolls of packaging and industrial paper / 0.554 / MWh/t
Petroleum refining / petroleum feedstocks / 0.0421 / MWh/kL
Printing and writing paper manufacturing / pulp from either or both of woodchips and sawdust / 0.448 / MWh/t
Printing and writing paper manufacturing / pulp from recovered paper / 0.824 / MWh/t
Printing and writing paper manufacturing / rolls of coated or uncoated printing and writing paper / 0.88 / MWh/t
Production of ammonia / ammonia (NH3) with concentration equal to or greater than 98% / 0.224 / MWh/t
Production of ammonium nitrate / ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) with concentration equal to or greater than 60% / 0.114 / MWh/t
Production of bulk flat glass / bulk flat glass / 0.276 / MWh/t
Production of carbamide (urea) / 100% equivalent carbamide (urea (CO(NH2)2)) / 0.285 / MWh/t
Production of carbon black / pelletised carbon black / 0.514 / MWh/t
Production of ceramic floor and wall tiles / ceramic floor and wall tiles / 0.221 / MWh/t
Production of chlorine gas and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) solution / caustic soda solution (NaOH(aq)) / 2.67 / MWh/t
Production of clinker / Portland cement clinker (see note 2) / 0.1252 / MWh/t
Production of coal char / coal char / 0.12 / MWh/t
Production of coke oven coke / coke oven coke / 0.0109 / MWh/t
Production of copper / copper anode / 1.31 / MWh/t
Production of copper / copper cathode (from brought in anode) / 0.387 / MWh/t
Production of copper / copper cathode (from concentrated mineralised copper compounds) / 1.69 / MWh/t
Production of dried distillers grains with solubles / dried distillers grains with solubles / 0.0785 / MWh/t
Production of ethene (ethylene) / 100% equivalent ethene (ethylene (C2H4)) / 0.275 / MWh/t
Production of ferrovanadium / 100% equivalent vanadium concentrate / 58.7 / MWh/t
Production of fused alumina / fused alumina / 2.03 / MWh/t
Production of fused zirconia / fused zirconia (zirconium dioxide (ZrO2)) / 6.07 / MWh/t
Production of glass beads / solid spherical glass beads / 0.4 / MWh/t
Production of glass containers / blown and pressed glass containers / 0.308 / MWh/t
Production of glass wool / glass wool / 1.78 / MWh/t
Production of helium / 100% equivalent helium / 36.5 / MWh/t
Production of high purity ethanol / 100% equivalent ethanol (C2H5OH) at 20°C / 0.168 / MWh/kL
Production of hydrogen peroxide / 100% equivalent hydrogen peroxide / 0.858 / MWh/t
Production of iron ore pellets / iron ore pellets / 0.0498 / MWh/t
Production of lime / lime / 0.0476 / MWh/t
Production of liquefied natural gas / liquefied natural gas / 0.064 / MWh/t
Production of magnesia / caustic calcined magnesia / 0.0757 / MWh/t
Production of magnesia / deadburned magnesia / 0.202 / MWh/t
Production of magnesia / electrofused magnesia / 2.45 / MWh/t
Production of magnetite concentrate / 100% equivalent iron (Fe) / 0.0826 / MWh/t
Production of manganese / ferromanganese alloy / 2.61 / MWh/t
Production of manganese / manganese sinter / 0.03 / MWh/t
Production of manganese / silicomanganese alloy / 4.31 / MWh/t
Production of methanol / 100% equivalent methanol (CH3OH) / 0.49 / MWh/t
Production of nickel / 100% equivalent cobalt contained in cobalt products / 8.89 / MWh/t
Production of nickel / 100% equivalent nickel contained in intermediate nickel products produced from nickel bearing inputs that are not subsequently transformed into primary nickel products at the same site / 6.45 / MWh/t
Production of nickel / 100% equivalent nickel contained in primary nickel products produced from intermediate nickel products that have not been produced at the same site / 2.84 / MWh/t
Production of nickel / 100% equivalent nickel contained in primary nickel products produced from nickel bearing inputs / 9.29 / MWh/t
Production of polyethylene / pelletised polyethylene / 0.646 / MWh/t
Production of polymer grade propene (polymer grade propylene) / 100% equivalent propene (C3H6, propylene) / 0.22 / MWh/t
Production of rolled aluminium / coiled aluminium sheet / 0.982 / MWh/t
Production of silicon / silicon / 11.7 / MWh/t
Production of sodium carbonate (soda ash) and sodium bicarbonate / light sodium carbonate, dense sodium carbonate and/or refined sodium bicarbonate / 0.13 / MWh/t
Production of sodium silicate glass / sodium silicate glass / 0.0205 / MWh/t
Production of synthetic rutile / synthetic rutile / 0.304 / MWh/t
Production of white titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment / white titanium dioxide pigment / 0.986 / MWh/t
Rendering of animal by-products / processed animal protein meal / 0.248 / MWh/t
Smelting zinc / zinc / 4.25 / MWh/t
Tissue paper manufacturing / pulp from either or both of woodchips and sawdust / 0.448 / MWh/t
Tissue paper manufacturing / rolls of uncoated tissue paper / 1.67 / MWh/t

Notes

  1. For more details about the EITE activities refer to the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001.

V2.1 12/01/2018 Appendix E: EITE activity summary, exemption certificate – production calculation method1 of 4