1 / 19

Overview and Data U.S . GHG Reporting Program

Learn about the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) history, data collection, and reporting workflow. Explore the program's coverage and categories, electronic data submission, verification process, and public data availability. Discover the GHGRP's role in tracking emissions from large facilities, its data publication goals, and access to GHG data tools.

crawley
Download Presentation

Overview and Data U.S . GHG Reporting Program

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Overview and Data U.S. GHG Reporting Program Kong Chiu U.S. EPA, Climate Change Division Third Wave Data for Environmental Policy Yale Beijing Center March 1, 2016

  2. Presentation Outline U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program History & Basics Coverage/linkage to U.S. Inventory Electronic Data Collection Data Publication

  3. US GHGRP Basics

  4. US GHG Reporting Program • Annual mandatory reporting of GHG : • Rule covers 41 source categories for reporting, accounting for 85-90% of total U.S. GHG emissions: • 33 types of direct emitters • 6 types of suppliers of fuel and industrial GHG • Facilities that inject CO2 underground for geologic sequestration, enhanced oil recovery, or any other purpose. • 25,000 MTCO2e threshold for some sources • Direct reporting to EPA electronically • EPA verification of emissions data • Monitoring began in 2010 for most emission sources with first reports submitted to EPA in September, 2011 • 2010 to 2014 data now publicly available

  5. U.S. GHGRP: Source Categories Covered Direct Emitters Suppliers CO2 Injection

  6. GHG Reporting and GHG Inventory

  7. GHG Reporting Program vs. US GHG Inventory • Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (Inventory) tracks total annual U.S. emissions across all sectors of the economy using national-level data • GHGRP collects detailed emissions data from large greenhouse gas emitting facilities in the United States • GHGRP covers most, but not all, U.S. GHG emissions • GHGRP does not include agriculture, land use, and small sources

  8. Data Collection & Verification

  9. Electronic Reporting Workflow EPA EnviroFacts: Serviceable, searchable and separately hosted copy of non-CBI dataset. EPA GHG Data System State-Specific Service Oriented data flow using EnviroFacts API • Improve data quality before it is submitted to EPA • - Intuitive Interface • - Comprehensive Help • Real-Time Data Quality • Feedback Downloadable XLS, XML & HTML Data Files & highlights Data Verification (EPA) iVP Reporters Facilities and Suppliers GHGRP Data Publication Website (FLIGHT) (ghgdata.epa.gov) e-GGRT, interactive web-based, data reporting tool EPA e-GGRT Datamart Data Collection Data Publication

  10. High Quality Data begins with High Quality Submissions • Real Time Data Quality Feedback • Comprehensive GHGRP Help Site • www.ccdsupport.com • Context-Sensitive Help within e-GGRT • Staffed Help Desk • Multi-Tier Ticket Triage • Received and resolved over 3,000 tickets during RY2010 Reporting Season • Training Webinars • Part 98 overviews, e-GGRT overviews, registration, testing and subpart webinars • Beta Testing • e-GGRT Sandbox

  11. Validation and Verification EPA’s verification process includes approximately 4,000 electronic checks. These checks comprise two groups. Validation checks and Verification checks. Validation generally refers to electronic checks and messaging performed by e-GGRT and presented to the reporter before the annual GHG report is certified and submitted Verification refers to electronic checks, manual review, and messaging performed by EPA after the annual report is certified and submitted.

  12. Data Publication

  13. Goals of Data Publication • Increase understanding of the sources of GHG emissions in the U.S. among the public • Voluntary management (TRI) • Improve quality of reported data • Support regional, state, and local programs • Provide a tool for schools, students, researchers and journalists • Information displayed in a simple, transparent manner – Allows public to use data in creative ways Draft - Deliberative - Do Not Cite, Quote, or Release

  14. EPA Data Publication Tools • EPA makes GHGRP data publicly available through several websites • FLIGHT (http://ghgdata.epa.gov) • Allows stakeholders and the public to access the key data elements quickly and easily • Envirofacts (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/facts/ghg/customized.html) • Contains all publicly available data collected by the GHGRP • Data Highlights (http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ghgdata/reported/index.html) • Contains a summary of datareported in each sector

  15. Cross-Comparing GHG and other Data

  16. GHG Data, Big Data, Conceptual Ideas Data warehouse (structured) or Data lake (unstructured, e.g. Hadoop) Facility GHG Data Big Data BI tools i.e. Tableau, Pentaho etc… Enhanced Understanding of emissions, patterns, relationships etc… Related Data Other sources, e.g.: Criteria pollutants HAPs Energy Activity etc… Multiple formats & types

  17. Live Data Demo

  18. For More Information on the GHG Reporting Program GHG Reporting Program: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ghgrulemaking.html GHG Data Publication: http://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do Questions? Email: GHGReporting@epa.gov

More Related