Clean Fuel Regulations (SOR/2022-140)

Marginal note:Electricity – charging-network operator

• 102 (1) A charging-network operator 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

  • (a) the compliance period begins on or before January 1, 2035 and the electricity is supplied to that electric vehicle by a charging station that is owned and intended primarily for use by the occupants of a private dwelling-place and that is installed on or before December 31, 2030; or

  • (b) the electricity is supplied to that electric vehicle by a charging station that is intended primarily for use by the public and whose location is indicated on the website or mobile application of the charging-network operator.

• Marginal note:Number of compliance credits

  (2) The number of compliance credits that the charging-network operator may create under subsection (1) for a compliance period by supplying electricity of a particular carbon intensity 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 vehicles, as determined by the formula

  (R_ee × CI_ref) − CI_e

  where

  R_ee

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

  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 the charging stations referred to in subsection (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.