• Policy

        • United States

        • 2010

        Arkansas Energy Efficiency Obligation

        …for natural gas utilities. Eligible energy efficiency measures include education, audits, heating systems, lighting, demand response, insulation, HVAC, and motors. Calculation of measures is based on deemed and metered savings. All programmes are subject to annual evaluation, measurement, and verification. Each utility employs a third-party contractor to perform company specific evaluation, measurement, and verification. The Commission's General Staff also contracts with an Independent Monitor who evaluates and verifies the work of the third-party contractors. Each utility files an annual evaluation, measurement and verification report with the Commission, and the Independent Monitor also files an annual report with…

        • Policy

        • Norway

        • 2001

        Regulations relating to measurement of petroleum for fiscal purposes and for calculation of CO2-tax (with 2012 amendments)

        This is an industry document, suggesting best practices in emissions reporting. It focuses on Norway's requirements imposed as of 2017, to report emissions from methane and other“The purpose of these regulations is to ensure that accurate measurements form the basis of the calculation of taxes, royalties and fees” to Norway. These regulations assist in the gathering and reporting of methane emissions data. The licensee will be responsible for complying with the regulations and ensuring that employees and contractors do the same. (Sec. 3) Violations may be subject to penalties or imprisonment. (Sec. 34) Emissions may not bypass the…

        • Policy

        • Norway

        • 2016

        Cold Venting and Fugitive Emissions from Norwegian Offshore Oil and Gas Activities, Modules 1 and 2

        The Norwegian Environmental Agency initiated a study (2014-16) to survey methane and NMVOC emission sources at offshore oil and gas installations. All permanent offshore oil and gas facilities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf were surveyed to identify potential emission sources. The objective was to quantify emissions, improve quantification, and identify suitable mitigation measures.  Module 1 identified all the components and activities that are sources of methane emissions on an offshore oil and gas facility. It also began to suggest that standard emissions factors failed to capture the range of emissions that can occur, for instance from equipment of different…

        • Policy

        • Canada

        • 2024

        (British Colombia) Output-Based Pricing System

        …limit. Emission limits are calculated based on an operation's annual production, a reduction factor corresponding to the product and the production weighted average emissions intensity. Performance credits are tradeable and follow the federal government’s backstop carbon price, which is CAD 65 in 2023, and will increase by CAD 15  annually until it reaches CAD 170 per tonne in 2030.Fugitive emissions, non-useful venting emissions and emissions associated with non-compression and non-processing activities in the oil and gas sectors are excluded from operations' emissions totals for OBPS purposes, but still must be reported under the GGIRCA.

        • Policy

        • Norway

        • 2002

        White Paper on Domestic Use of Natural Gas

        …the domestic use of natural gas. The White Paper puts forward a strategy in order to increase the use of natural gas in Norway. The policy is focused on direct use of natural gas and power plants with carbon dioxide capture and storage. In addition, the report evaluates measures to boost transmission of land-generated electricity to offshore installation, hydrogen and a system of green certificates. The main policy proposals are: - establish a support scheme for domestic distribution of natural gas, administered by Enova SF (the agency for promoting energy savings, new renewable energy and environmentally friendly natural gas solutions) -…

        • Policy

        • Poland

        • 2020

        Development of biogas and biomethane industries

        …biogas. Purified biogas in the form of biomethane, with the quality parameters of natural gas, can be successfully inserted into a national distribution network. The proposed development of the biomethane sector in the amendment creates the conditions which, in the perspective of 2030, will enable the European Commission Communication to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions to implement the European Green Deal (Brussels, 11.12.2019, COM(2019) 640 final), including in particular the increase in the share of renewable gas fuels in the national gas system. 

        • Policy

        • Spain

        • 2019

        Emergency Plan

        Spain’s 2019–2023 Gas System Emergency Plan, detailing crisis levels and corresponding supply-demand restraint measures to safeguard gas supply, especially for protected consumers.

        • Policy

        • South Africa

        • 2008

        National Energy Act - Strategic stocks petroleum policy and implementation plan

        This plan amended the National Energy Act of 2008 to maintain reserves equivalent to 60 days of net imports in both crude oil and refined products for the Strategic Fuel Fund. Licensed manufacturers and wholesalers are required to hold 14 days of refined products.

        • Policy

        • France

        • 2022

        Power Purchasing Act

        …for oil-heated householdsdoubling the cap on exemptions from employers' fuel premium contributions to EUR 400 a year per employeecreating an incentive for employers to cover 75% of the transport subscription of their employees (while the existing legal requirement at 50%)enabling the combination of the different support schemes related to transporteasing until end of 2022 the access criteria to the "bicycle bonus" subsidy for purchasing an electric bicycleintroducing a financial incentive for regular carpooling expensesc- Policy impact monitoring and consumer informationassessing the effectiveness of the tariff shield on local authoritiesensuring better consumer information on rising gas and electricity prices

        • Policy

        • Canada

        • 2013

        Quebec Cap & Trade System for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowances

        In 2009 Quebec established Cap and Trade System for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowances system in order to limit the emissions and encourage energy saving and growing shares of renewables in the consumption in the highest emitting sectors (i.e. transportation, industry and building). In December 2012 the system was updated with new rules entering into force in January 2013.The businesses that emit 25,000 metric tons or more of CO2 equivalent a year are subject to the cap-and-trade system. The first compliance period covered 2013 and 2014 and applied only to industrial and electricity sector. The second…

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