Track the latest auction, emissions, and allocation data for the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and Washington (WA) carbon markets.
Carbon Pulse is introducing a new North American Compliance Markets Portal that collates auction results, regulated emissions, and allowance allocations in the three markets.
The auction data includes settlement prices, total volumes sold, bid-to-cover ratio, and the share of allowances bought by compliance entities at WCI, RGGI, and WA auctions. We also track advance auctions in the WCI and WA markets, and Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) sales in the WA market. Auction data is updated every quarter.
Emissions data is available to browse per market, plotted against emissions caps. For RGGI, we offer a state-level breakdown of emissions, allowance budgets, and the monthly power generation mix. Emissions are updated annually for all markets but RGGI, where they are updated quarterly.
Finally, the Portal displays an allowance budget breakdown for California, including allocations for industry, natural gas suppliers, and electrical distribution utilities, plus free allocations to industry for Quebec. The former is updated annually and the latter twice a year.
Most of the charts are filterable, letting you choose which markets, time series, auction types, or states you are interested in.
The data is collected directly from the markets and their regulators, plus a third-party specialist for the RGGI electricity generation data.
Carbon Pulse is launching its North American Compliance Market Portal on the eve of North American Carbon World (NACW), running from Mar. 31 to Apr. 2 in San Diego, California.
If you’re attending, check out Carbon Pulse’s NACW workshop on Apr. 2, “Decoding California’s Cap-and-Invest Overhaul”, where we will deep dive into proposed changes in the California market with a panel of experts from BloombergNEF, cCarbon, Fastmarkets, and Wood Mackenzie.
“The California market is undergoing a dramatic revamp with the recent publication of the Initial Statement of Reasons, and Carbon Pulse readers will now be able track how auction results, emissions, and allocations shift over time as the programme evolves,” said Graham Gibson, co-editor, Americas.
“We broke the news of California extending its cap-and-trade programme last year, and the Portal is an exciting new data offering that will add context and depth to our reporting.”
“This Portal complements our existing data journalism through our Data Dive series as we incorporate more visualisations into our day-to-day reporting,” said data journalist Cameron Murdoch, who led the Portal’s construction.
The North American Compliance Markets Portal joins our recently revamped VCM, Article 6, and NDC Portals as the latest addition to an expanding suite of Resources to inspire and support our reporting.
These are free-access resources that sit in front of our paywall behind a (free) log-in wall.
If you are interested in contributing to our reporting, either through a data feed to our editorial team or the portals, or potentially by hosting a page with your own data, please get in touch with our business development team at [email protected].
