Clean Fuel Regulations (SOR/2022-140)

Marginal note:Electricity — charging-site host

• 101 (1) A charging-site host may, for a compliance period, create provisional compliance credits in respect of the liquid class by displacing, during the compliance period, the use in Canada of a quantity of fuel in the liquid class with the use in Canada of electricity as an energy source for an electric vehicle of a class that is listed in the Specifications for Fuel LCA Model CI Calculations, if the electricity is supplied to that electric vehicle by a charging station other than any charging station referred to in subsection 102(1).

• Marginal note:Number of compliance credits

  (2) The number of compliance credits that the charging-site host may create under subsection (1) for a compliance period by supplying electricity of a particular carbon intensity to electric vehicles is determined by the formula

  CI_diff × (Q × D) × 10^-6

  where

  CI_diff

  is the difference between the reference carbon intensity for the liquid class for the compliance period, as set out in item 1, column 2, of Schedule 1 and adjusted by the energy efficiency ratio of the electric vehicles, and the carbon intensity of the electricity used by those electric vehicles, as determined by the formula

  (R_ee × CI_ref) − CI_e

  where

  R_ee

  is

  • (a) if the electricity is supplied by a charging station that is not accessible to electric marine vessels,

    • (i) in the case of light-duty electric vehicles, at the election of the registered creator, the energy efficiency ratio on the January 1 of the compliance period for the light-duty class of electric vehicles, as set out in the Specifications for Fuel LCA Model CI Calculations, or an energy efficiency ratio of 2.5, or

    • (ii) in the case of any other class of electric vehicles, at the election of the registered creator, the energy efficiency ratio on the January 1 of the compliance period for the class of the electric vehicles, as set out in the Specifications for Fuel LCA Model CI Calculations, or an energy efficiency ratio of 2.5,

  • (b) if the electricity is supplied by a charging station that is accessible to electric marine vessels, at the election of the registered creator, the energy efficiency ratio on the January 1 of the compliance period for the class of the electric vehicles, as set out in the Specifications for Fuel LCA Model CI Calculations, or an energy efficiency ratio of 2.5, or

  • (c) if the electricity is supplied by a charging station that is accessible to more than one class of electric vehicles and it is not possible to differentiate between the quantity of electricity supplied to each class of electric vehicles, the energy efficiency ratio that is the lesser of the energy efficiency ratios determined under paragraph (a) and (b),

  CI_ref

  is the reference carbon intensity for the liquid class for the compliance period, as set out in item 1, column 2, of Schedule 1, and

  CI_e

  is the carbon intensity of the electricity supplied to the electric vehicles that is determined in accordance with subsection 75(7), that is approved under subsection 85(1) or that is the actual carbon intensity specified in the carbon-intensity-pathway report referred to in subsection 123(1), as the case may be;

  Q

  is the quantity of electricity supplied to the electric vehicles, expressed in kilowatt-hours, as measured by charging stations other than those referred to in subsection 102(1), subject to any measurement accuracy or load test tolerances for charging stations that are indicated in the document entitled Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices, published by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology; and

  D

  is 3.6 megajoules per kilowatt-hour.