National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System (NGERS)

Energetics can help you with getting ready for the National Greenhouse And Energy Reporting Act. Within months you may be liable under Federal law to report your company's energy usage and greenhouse gases and the team at Energetics is ready to assist you...

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System (NGERS)

Energetics’ thorough understanding of energy and greenhouse reporting methods ensures your NGERS inventory is prepared to a high standard, with confidence in its accuracy and submissionreadiness. Under NGERS, data quality is expected to be high, similar to that used for financial reporting.

Information management and reporting

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Background

The Commonwealth Government passed the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act (NGER) in September 2007. The purpose of the new law is to ensure that there is a consistent approach to greenhouse gas emission reporting across Australia. The collection and reporting of information related to greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas projects, energy production and energy consumption is a precursor to establishing the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
Compliance obligations under the new law begin in July 2008 with the first reporting period for the 2008/2009 financial year.

Does the Act apply to you?

A requirement to report under the NGER can be triggered in three ways:

your level of direct greenhouse gas emissions;
your company's total energy produced;
your company's total energy consumed

A company triggers the reporting threshold if:

In year 1 (2008 / 2009): the company produces 125,000 tCO2e gross direct emissions or 500 TJ of energy are produced or consumed
In year 2 (2009 / 2010): the company produces 87,500 tCO2e or 350 TJ of energy are produced or consumed
In year 3 (2010 / 2011): the company produces 50,000 tCO2e or 200 TJ of energy are produced or consumed

A facility can also trigger the re porting threshold if it produces 25,000 tCO2e or produces or consumes over 100 TJ (from 2008 / 2009).

Penalties will apply for non-compliance

The draft regulations propose that there will be criminal and civil penalties for failure to comply with this law.

Civil penalties are proposed for a failure to apply to register when liable to so, failure to provide a report and failure to provide information

How Energetics can help

Energetics can assist your organisation in a number of ways...
1. We understand what data needs to be collected and how to manage and integrate this process across complex organisations
2. We can help you to start recording all the relevant data
3. We can assist in Greenhouse Gas inventory production and the reporting of this under the Act
4. We can also offer a complete data management and reporting solution that is used by many of Australia’s leading organizations We have a dedicated NGER Team at Energetics who have built up specialist expertise in understanding the law and its draft regulations.
The team has already undertaken several large NGER baseline inventories for Australian ASX200 companies. We have been advising Government on amendments to the draft regulations so we are well placed to assist on all aspects of the NGER regulations.

NGER AND EEO reporting

Energetics is maintaining a close watch on the current process related to the alignment of EEO reporting requirements with the NGER legislation. We have reviewed and are preparing a submission to the Department of Resources Energy and Tourism (DRET) in relation to the proposed changes, and attended the recent stakeholder briefing session in Canberra.

Energetics will keep a close watch on these developments, and will update our clients and develop solutions to best assist our clients meet their reporting requirements in due course.

NEED FURTHER INFORMATION? If you require further information about this service or advice as to how Energetics can assist, please contact Energetics or call 02 9929 3911

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