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Measuring and reporting on organisational carbon emissions is becoming more widespread. Whether you’re a listed company needing to meet your own reporting obligations, a proactive company responding to consumer demand, or, you’re preparing for the impending Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure requirements, there are all sorts of reasons to measure and report your emissions, on the way to ultimately reducing them.

In this issue: The Residual Supply Mix for 2020/21 is published, draft rules for certifying renewable gas out now for comment, Toitū Envirocare recognises energy certificates, and we’ll be speaking at the next Energy Trader Forum.

The recent Climate Change Commission’s (CCC) advice is extensive, covering every sector of the economy. It was developed to inform the New Zealand Government on the direction for the future.

Recently, we announced the completion of the 2020/21 Production Year. As a final step in the end of year process, we have now calculated the Residual Supply Mix (RSM) for the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 for electricity certification. Producing the RSM is a key function of our role as certification…

Tim Street, our Energy Market Analyst, will be speaking at the next Energy Trader Forum on 12 August. Attendance is by invitation only.

Certified Energy has just published a draft set of rules for certifying renewable gas, to help increase renewable gas production. All gas users, producers and anyone interested in the gas network are invited to give feedback.

Earlier this year, BOC announced it would be the first company in New Zealand to produce ‘green hydrogen’. This represents a major development for companies wanting to achieve their sustainability goals but which rely on gas for industrial processing.

In this issue: We profile Kawatiri Energy which is running a revived and expanded hydro generation scheme on the West Coast, and we have the latest from the renewable gas consultation.