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  ANAO Report No.11 2014–15 The Award of Grants under the Clean Technology Program 91 are emitted for each unit of output produced by a manufacturer. 111 Further, in the customer guidelines, the department communicated to prospective applicants that the reduction in carbon emissions intensity would be assessed using the:  predicted percentage reduction in carbon emissions intensity following project implementation indicator one; and  total predicted carbon savings over the life of the conservation measure indicator two.

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values for these indicators were to be calculated using the Carbon and Energy Savings Calculator the calculator provided on AusIndustry’s website. To generate these values, applicants were required to:  identify the activities on a site or multiple sites that related to the manufacturing activities for which funding was sought, as opposed to other activities such as corporate management;  select an activity boundary from which emissions were estimated—this could have been the whole or part of a manufacturing site;  identify a period of time over which to measure baseline emissions intensity that was typical of the normal production process and did not include one‐off or unusually large periods of activity;  estimate future production levels based on realistic sales forecasts and associated energy use; and  identify the effective life of the emissions reduction measures.

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scoring methodology developed by the department then allocated a score against merit criterion one using the two indicators. The score for indicator one was based on the percentage reduction in carbon emissions intensity, while the score for indicator two was based on grant funds per tonne of carbon abated which was the total carbon savings over the life of the conservation measure relative to the amount of grant funds requested. 112 The 111 Greenhouse gases are produced, for example, when burning coal or natural gas to generate the electricity that powers a manufacturing process. The most common greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. There are five other main types of greenhouse gases: methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride. The latter three are synthetic and are either used in industry or created as a by-product of industrial processes. 112 Total carbon savings over the life of the conservation measure was listed in the departmental assessment, but was not a basis for scoring applications.