National Allocation Plan for Spain 2008-2012
Spain's 2008-2012 National Plan for the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rights (NAP 2008-2012) was enacted through Royal Decree 1402/2007 amending Royal Decree 1370/2006. This NAP establishes the total volume of rights allocated to each sector and facilities covered by Act 1/2005, including the electric sector. It also defines and describes the methodologies for allocating these sector quotas that will be applied to obtain individual quotas for each facility, and announces and establishes the use of carbon credits from projects based on Kyoto Protocol flexibility mechanisms.
Individual emission rights for installations included in the NAP 2008-2012 are allocated via Order PRE/3420/2007, of 14 November. The NAP 2008-2012 establishes an average annual allocation of 146 million tonnes of rights, to which are added six million tonnes of reserve annual CO2 emission rights (4.3% of the annual allocation), resulting in a total of 152 million tonnes of annual emission rights. An average annual allocation is established for the electric sector of 54 million tonnes for the period 2008-2012, establishing the possibility of using credits from projects associated with Kyoto Protocol flexibility mechanisms up to 42% of the total allocation for the sector.
An average of 24 million tonnes of CO2 per annum have been allocated to Endesa for all thermal power stations. Taking into account the 42% flexibility margin, Endesa’s installations will be permitted to use 10 million metric tonnes/year of credits obtained via emission reduction projects.
2008-2012 National Allocation Plan for Portugal
Portugal has been allocated 2.7 million tonnes of free CO2 emissions rights. Endesa's Portuguese power stations have used 2.835 million tonnes of these emission rights.
2008-2012 National Allocation Plan for Ireland
Endesa was allocated 1.4 million tonnes of free CO2 emission rights in Ireland in 2009. The Irish power stations have consumed 0.554 million tonnes of these emissions rights.
Latin America
In Latin America Endesa continued to roll out European methodology for controlling CO2 emissions from thermal power stations. Application of Endesa Chile's Regulation 19 on atmospheric emissions from Latin American thermal power stations has also been revised.
CO2 Emissions
Endesa’s emissions at the end of 2009 totalled 32,649 Kt of CO2 in Spain and Portugal, 13,452 Kt in Latin America, and 1,064 Kt in other countries.
Endesa’s carbon emissions have fallen from 695g of CO2/kWh in 1990 to 344 g of CO2/kWh in 2009, a 50.5% reduction. Endesa cut CO2 emissions by 6% between 2008 and 2009.