The Emissions Performance Standard Monitoring and Enforcement Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

EPS annual emissions notification N.I.

6.—(1) If the condition in paragraph (2) is satisfied in relation to a relevant fossil fuel plant, the operator of the plant must submit, annually, a notification (“an EPS annual emissions notification”) to the chief inspector in accordance with paragraph (4).

(2) The condition is that the total of—

(a) the total annual emissions of carbon dioxide for the relevant fossil fuel plant reported in a verified Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report (“ the Report”); and

(b) if applicable and where not otherwise included in the total under sub-paragraph (a), the total annual emissions of carbon dioxide directly attributable to the production of fuel produced from fossil fuel in any associated gasification plant used by the relevant fossil fuel plant for the same period as the Report,

is greater than the emissions limit for the plant for the year covered by the Report.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)—

(a) only emissions of carbon dioxide which relate to generating units reported in the Report are to be included; and

(b) “emissions limit” means the emissions limit for the relevant fossil fuel plant calculated in accordance with section 57(1) of the Act and as modified, if applicable, by regulation 4 of the EPS Regulations.

(4) An EPS annual emissions notification must—

(a) state the EPS annual emissions for the relevant fossil fuel plant for the same period as the Report referred to in paragraph (2) and, for this purpose, the EPS annual emissions are to be calculated or measured in accordance with the methodology of the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation;

(b) identify source streams for each generating unit at the relevant fossil fuel plant to which the emissions limit duty applies;

(c) be submitted to the chief inspector within 10 days of the submission of the verified Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report referred to in paragraph (2); and

(d) be submitted in such form and manner as the chief inspector may reasonably require.