ACCU Scheme project register

Download and parse the Clean Energy Regulator's Australian Carbon Credit Unit ('ACCU') Scheme project register. Returns one row per project with proponent, method, state, crediting period, permanence period, and cumulative ACCUs issued and relinquished.

Usage

cer_accu_projects(
  state = NULL,
  method = NULL,
  status = c("active", "revoked", "completed", "all")
)

Source

Clean Energy Regulator, ACCU project and contract register: https://cer.gov.au/markets/reports-and-data/accu-project-and-contract-register. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Arguments

state: Optional character vector of Australian state codes (e.g. "NSW", c("VIC", "QLD")) to filter on. NULL returns projects across all states.
method: Optional character vector of method name substrings (case-insensitive, e.g. "savanna", "landfill", "vegetation").
status: Character. One of "active" (default), "revoked", "completed", or "all".

Value

A cer_tbl (data frame) with one row per ACCU project.

Details

The register is updated monthly by the CER, usually around the third week. Downloaded once per R session (or invalidate with cer_clear_cache()).

References

Commonwealth of Australia. Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011. Enabling legislation for the ACCU Scheme.

Chubb, I. (2022). Independent Review of Australian Carbon Credit Units. Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Climate Change Authority (2024). 2026 Review of the ACCU Scheme: Issues paper.

Macintosh, A., Butler, D., Larraondo, P., Evans, M.C., Ansell, D., Gibbons, P., Lindenmayer, D., Waschka, M. and Fisher, R. (2022). "The emperor's new clothes: assessing the integrity of ACCUs." Australian National University working paper series.

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(cer.cache_dir = tempdir())
p <- cer_accu_projects(state = "NSW")
head(p)
options(op)
# }