Output-Based Pricing System Regulations

Marginal note:New electricity production facility — gaseous fuel

• 41.1 (1) If an electricity generation facility begins generating electricity on or after January 1, 2021 and meets the following criteria, the person responsible for the covered facility must determine the GHG emissions limit that applies to the facility for each compliance period as of the compliance period during which the electricity generation began, in accordance with subsection (2):

  • (a) at least one unit within the facility generates electricity from gaseous fuels; and

  • (b) at least one of the units that generates electricity from gaseous fuels within the facility has an electricity generation capacity equal to or greater than 50 MW and is designed to operate at a thermal energy to electricity ratio of less than 0.9.

• Marginal note:Different output-based standard

  (2) The GHG emissions limit that applies to the electricity generation facility, expressed in CO₂e tonnes, is determined for each compliance period in accordance with the formula

  

  where

  A_j

  is, for each unit “i” within the electricity generation facility that generates electricity from solid fuel or liquid fuel, the gross amount of electricity generated during the compliance period, quantified in accordance with section 32, from the specified industrial activities set out in paragraph 38(a) and (b), column 1, of Schedule 1 that are engaged in at the unit;

  B_j

  the output-based standard applicable to each specified industrial activity set out in paragraphs 38(a) and (b), column 1, of Schedule 1 that the are engaged in at each unit “i” and that is set out in column 3;

  C

  is, for each unit “k” within the electricity generation facility that generates electricity from gaseous fuels, that has an electricity generation capacity equal to or greater than 50 MW and that has a thermal energy to electricity ratio of less than 0.9, the gross amount of electricity generated during the compliance period in accordance with section 32, from the specified industrial activity set out in paragraph 38(c), column 1, of Schedule 1 that is engaged in at the unit;

  D

  is the output-based standard applicable and is

  • (a) 370 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2021,

  • (b) 329 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2022,

  • (c) 288 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2023,

  • (d) 247 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2024,

  • (e) 206 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2025,

  • (f) 164 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2026,

  • (g) 123 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2027,

  • (h) 82 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2028,

  • (i) 41 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2029, and

  • (j) 0 CO₂e tonnes per unit of measurement, for compliance period 2030 and subsequent compliance periods; and

  E

  is, for each unit “l” within the electricity generation facility that generate electricity from gaseous fuels, has an electricity generation capacity of less than 50 MW or a thermal energy to electricity ratio of 0.9 or greater, the gross amount of electricity generated during the compliance period from the specified industrial activity engaged in at the unit set out in paragraph 38(c), column 1, of Schedule 1, quantified in accordance with section 32;

  F

  the output-based standard applicable to each specified industrial activity set out in paragraph 38(c), column 1, of Schedule 1 that are engaged in at each unit “i” and that is set out in column 3;

  i

  is the i^th unit, where “i” goes from 1 to n and where n is the total number of units within the electricity generation facility generating electricity using solid fuel or liquid fuel;

  j

  is the j^th activity, where “j” goes from 1 to m and where m is the total number of industrial activities set out in paragraphs 38(a) to (b), column 1, of Schedule 1 that is engaged in at the electricity generation facility;

  k

  is the k^th unit, where “k” goes from 1 to r and where r is the total number of units within the electricity generation facility, generating electricity using gaseous fuel, that have an electricity generation capacity equal to or greater than 50 MW and a thermal energy to electricity ratio of less than 0.9;

  l

  is the l^th unit, where “l” goes from 1 to s and where s is the total number of units within the electricity generation facility, generating electricity using gaseous fuel, that have an electricity generation capacity of less than 50 MW or a thermal energy to electricity ratio of 0.9 or greater.