Australian Nominee Companies Report Methodology

The analysis from this report uses GEM’s Global Energy Ownership Tracker and draws on several of GEM’s fossil fuel trackers: Global Coal Plant Tracker, Global Coal Mine Tracker, and Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker. Fossil fuel projects with inactive statuses (ex: retired, cancelled, mothballed, shelved) were left out of the analysis.

CO2 emissions in this analysis are estimated using GEM’s coal plant and oil and gas plant CO2 emissions methodologies, coupled with Australian unit-level generation capacity factors from Open Electricity.

To learn more about GEM’s emissions methodologies, see “Estimating carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants” and “Estimating carbon dioxide emissions from gas plants.” For cases where unit-level capacity factors were not found for a unit, Open Electricity’s 2024 average regional capacity factor was used.

Open Electricity’s unit-level capacity factors were taken from 2024. The generation information derives from Australia’s public energy data for the National Electricity Market (NEM) and Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM).

Coal mines are not a major direct emitter of CO2, so methane CO2 equivalent emissions over 20 years and 100 years from GEM’s Global Coal Mine Tracker are used in the analysis. In 2024, the coal sector was responsible for close to 10% of global methane emissions.