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Civilian nuclear power generation is currently prohibited in Australia. There is no lawful approval pathway for a civilian nuclear power reactor under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) s140A or the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998 (Cth) s10, and New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania impose additional state-level bans.

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Calculator 04

Carbon Abatement Value

What would the avoided emissions be worth, valued at today’s ACCU spot reference and at the Safeguard Mechanism cost containment ceiling?

Emissions and price basis

Source of avoided emissions

1,000kWe

85per cent

0.30L/kWh

The same displacement engine as Module 1, at the DCCEEW-derived Scope 1 factor of 2.710 kg CO2-e/L.

Informational toggle only. It changes the explanatory note shown, not the calculation, and it is not an eligibility or coverage determination.

1years

Multi-year figures hold the carbon price flat and are undiscounted. Safeguard baselines decline about 4.9% a year to FY2029-30 and about 3.285% a year thereafter, so a covered facility’s position changes materially over time in ways this simple multiplication does not capture.

Annual CO2-e avoided

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Illustrative value at ACCU spot

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Illustrative value at the Safeguard cost containment ceiling

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Safeguard coverage context

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Forward-looking illustration These outputs are forward-looking statements: scenario estimates built from the assumptions you have entered and the constants listed below. They are based on assumptions that may not prove correct and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Actual results would differ materially. No representation or warranty is given as to the achievement of any figure shown. Outputs describe avoided cost, emissions or noise at a hypothetical operating site — they are not returns, yields, distributions or any measure of investment performance. Civilian nuclear power is not currently lawful in Australia, so this scenario could not be built today.

Illustrative value of the avoided emissions, by price reference

The ACCU bar is drawn as a range because the reported spot price is a range. Neither bar represents revenue, a credit entitlement, or an offset of any liability.

What this valuation is not

  • It is not a statement that ACCUs are issuable for displacing diesel generation. Credit creation requires an approved method, registration, and compliance with the scheme rules, and no such determination has been made for this activity.
  • It is not an offset of a Safeguard Mechanism liability. The cost containment measure ceiling is a price at which covered facilities may access units in defined circumstances — it is used here purely as an upper valuation reference.
  • It does not create or imply a carbon-market revenue stream, and it is not a forecast of any carbon price.
  • It is not investment advice and is not a fund-performance measure.
  • Any actual position would require a separate eligibility and legal determination.

A non-carbon comparator, named

For a remote mine, the economic comparator alongside this valuation is the independent remote-mine diesel electricity benchmark of A$240–450/MWh (ECD Online citing AECOM analysis). It is shown here as context on the scale of the underlying energy cost. It is not a carbon price, an emissions factor, or an input to the valuation above.

Comparisons in this suite are always to the entered diesel case or to that remote-diesel benchmark — never to the National Electricity Market, utility solar, wind, or renewables plus storage, for which no like-for-like study is presented here.

Method

The formulas, in full

If deriving from a site: Annual energy (kWh/yr) = Capacity × CapacityFactor × 8,760 Diesel volume (L/yr) = Annual energy × SFC Annual CO2-e (t/yr) = Diesel volume × 2.710 ÷ 1,000 Illustrative value (A$/yr) = Annual CO2-e avoided (t) × CarbonPrice (A$/t) Multi-year value = Annual value × Years (undiscounted; carbon price held flat)

Price references used: ACCU spot A$36.28–38.95/t CO2-e (Clean Energy Regulator quarterly carbon market report) and the Safeguard Mechanism cost containment measure ceiling of A$82.68/t (Clean Energy Regulator).

Carbon prices move. These are point-in-time references and must be refreshed before this module is published.

Provenance

Constants and sources

General information only

This calculator provides general, illustrative information only about hypothetical energy-generation scenarios. It does not take into account your personal circumstances, objectives or financial situation, and does not constitute financial product advice, an offer of securities, or a recommendation to invest in Deployable Energy Fund Limited, Deployable Energy Limited, or any other entity. Figures are drawn from third-party Australian government, regulator and industry sources (cited on this page) and, where expressly badged, from Deployable Energy’s own unverified planning assumptions. They are provided for general educational and illustrative purposes only. The Unity Battery microreactor has not yet been deployed commercially, and civilian nuclear power generation is not currently permitted in Australia under the EPBC Act and the ARPANS Act (and, in several states, additional state legislation). Nothing on this page should be relied upon as a representation that deployment in Australia is imminent or currently lawful.

See the full disclaimers and important notices.