THE RESOURCE EFFICIENCY PHYSICAL INDEX (REPI)

METRICS FOR EPR A1 OPERATORS

Annual data to be provided by EPR A1 operators

METRIC DEFINITION

1. COMMERCIAL OUTPUT

(a) Total output from the economic The annual quantity of commercial product and by-products
activity manufactured.
(tonnes, or MWh for commercial (We will combine these data with resource usage data to
electricity products). measure resource efficiency).

2. RAW MATERIALS CONSUMPTION

(a) Gross total raw materials The annual quantity of raw materials imported and directly
consumption consumed by the manufacturing installation. Include all
(tonnes per annum) materials, i.e. virgin raw materials; manufactured materials;
wastes, by-products or recovered materials.

(b) Net total raw materials The annual quantity of imported materials excluding waste,
consumption by-products or recovered materials.
(tonnes per annum) Reporting is optional.

3. ENERGY CONSUMPTION

(a) Gross total energy consumption The annual quantity of fuel, public supply electricity and
(MWh per annum) other energy from all sources directly consumed by the
installation. (a) = (b) + (d) + (e) + (f) + (g) + (heat/steam
imports).

(b) Grid Electricity consumption The annual quantity of grid electricity directly consumed by
(MWh per annum) the installation.

(c) Electricity production The annual quantity of electricity exported to the grid.
(MWh per annum)

(d) Gas consumption The annual quantity of gas directly consumed by the
(MWh per annum) installation.

(e) Oil consumption As above, for Oil.

(MWh per annum)

(f) Coal consumption As above, for Coal.

(MWh per annum)

(g) Non-fossil energy and fuel The annual quantity of non-fossil energy and fuel directly
consumption (MWh per annum) consumed e.g.:
 imported waste, by-products or recovered materials;
the manufacturing process’s own waste, by-products or
recovered materials;
biomass;
wind and wave energy.
Reporting is optional.

(h) Net total energy use
(MWh per annum)
The annual quantity of fuel and public supply electricity from
all sources directly consumed by the installation, minus the
annual quantity of energy which is produced by the
installation and exported to be used off-site, e.g. exports of
electricity, heat, steam. (h) = (a) -(c) - (heat/steam exports).

4. WATER CONSUMPTION

(a) Gross total water use The annual quantity of water from all sources directly used
(m3 per annum) in the installation. Calculate as 4(a) = 4(c) + 4(d).

(b) Net water use Total water used minus water returned directly to the
(m3 per annum) environment without off-site treatment.

(c) Mains The annual quantity of mains water directly used in the
(m3 per annum) installation.

(d) Direct abstraction The annual quantity of groundwater (borehole) and surface
(m3 per annum) water directly used in the installation.

5. WASTE PRODUCTION

(a) Gross total waste production The annual quantity of waste arising from all process-
(tonnes per annum) related activities and transferred off-site for disposal or
recovery.

(b) Hazardous waste transferred for The annual quantity of hazardous waste arising and
disposal transferred off-site for disposal.
(tonnes per annum)

(c) Hazardous waste transferred for The annual quantity of hazardous waste arising and
recovery transferred off-site for recovery.
(tonnes per annum)

(d) Non-Hazardous waste The annual quantity of non-hazardous waste arising and
transferred for disposal transferred off-site for disposal.
(tonnes per annum)

(e) Non-Hazardous waste The annual quantity of non-hazardous waste arising and
transferred for recovery transferred off-site for recovery.
(tonnes per annum)

(f) Net total waste production Total waste transferred off-site for disposal: i.e. 5(b) plus
(tonnes per annum) 5(d).
GUIDANCE NOTES ON INTERPRETING THE REPI METRICS

This Note will help EPR A1 operators make their resource efficiency returns to the Pollution
Inventory. They will not be asked to report data until 1 January 2010 but the Note assists their
preparations for reporting. It will be included in our general guidance on completing the return
which we will issue later this year. We will formally issue the requirements in a Statutory
Notice.

1. Commercial Output

METRIC: DEFINITION:

(a) Total output from the
economic activity
(tonnes per annum [KWh
per annum for commercial
electricity products]).
The annual quantity of commercial product and by-products
manufactured.
Note - the Environment Agency will use these data in
combination with resource usage data to measure and report
the resource efficiency of industries we regulate.

Guidance on calculating and reporting quantities

If electricity production is your installation’s primary purpose, report your electricity production
in this Section. If electricity production is your installation’s primary purpose and you also
produce physical goods commercially (e.g. gypsum), report both products in this Section.
Measure electricity products as the quantity sold to customers. If energy production is not
your primary purpose but you sell energy as a by-product, do not include energy sales in this
Section but factor them into the Section called “Energy Consumption” (see that Section’s
guidance below).

Exclude quantities of product or by-product which you have discarded (e.g. off-specification
batches) and include these in the Section of the return called ‘Waste Transfers’.

If you are a waste management operation, include in this Section any waste materials which
you have recovered in your installation and then sold. If your installation is a waste
management process which produces no commercial output whatsoever (as goods or
electricity), report your commercial output as zero.

2. Raw Materials Consumption

METRICS: DEFINITIONS:

(a) Gross total raw materials The annual quantity of raw materials imported and directly
consumption used in the manufacturing process. Include all materials, i.e.
(tonnes per annum) virgin raw materials; manufactured materials; wastes; by-
products or recovered materials.

(b) Net total raw materials The annual quantity of imported materials excluding waste, by-
consumption products or recovered materials.
(tonnes per annum) Reporting is optional.
Guidance on calculating and reporting quantities

Calculate tonnage of raw materials as gross rather than net, i.e. include all manufacturing
materials received whether or not they are contained in the final commercial product and/or
by-products. Include materials which you remove from the feedstock consignment on site
prior to the main manufacturing process (e.g. packaging).

If deriving total tonnage of raw materials from a detailed inventory of all materials is unduly
burdensome, then estimate the tonnage by scaling up from the main materials, e.g. scale up
from the first 80%. This could be done by sampling the quantities of other materials to
estimate their proportion of total materials, then applying this factor to the total.

Fictitious example:
A company makes a product using 3 major ingredients by weight plus 50 minor ingredients. Example
procedure to calculate total tonnage of materials used:
a) Estimate the weight ratio of minor ingredients to major ingredients by measuring the total weight of
minor
ingredients and the total weight of the major ingredients used in producing a typical batch of the product.
b) Monitor weight of major ingredients used during the year.
c) Calculate total annual weight of materials by applying the assumed ‘minor : major’ weight ratio.

If electricity production is the primary purpose of the installation, include only your inputs of
non-fuel materials in this Section of the return, e.g. limestone and lime. Include all your inputs
of fuel materials in the Section called ‘Energy Consumption’.

If water is incorporated in raw materials, include it in this Section, i.e. calculate wet weight
rather then dry weight of materials. ‘Incorporated’ means an integral part of the materials as
they are received at the gate of the installation. Otherwise include water in the Section of the
return called ‘Water Consumption’.

If you are a waste management installation, report in this Section the tonnage of waste you
process through the installation.

3. Energy Consumption

3. ENERGY CONSUMPTION

(a) Gross total energy The annual quantity of fuel, public supply electricity and
consumption other energy from all sources directly consumed by the
(MWh per annum) installation. (a) = (b) + (d) + (e) + (f) + (g) + (heat/steam
imports).

(b) Grid electricity consumption The annual quantity of grid electricity directly consumed by
(MWh per annum) the installation.

(c) Electricity production The annual quantity of electricity exported to the grid.
(MWh per annum)

(d) Gas consumption The annual quantity of gas directly consumed by the
(MWh per annum) installation.

(e) Oil consumption As above, for Oil.

(MWh per annum)

(f) Coal consumption As above, for Coal.

(MWh per annum)
 (g) Non-fossil energy and fuel
consumption (MWh per annum)
The annual quantity of non-fossil energy and fuel directly
consumed e.g.:
imported waste, by-products or recovered materials;
the manufacturing process’s own waste, by-products or
recovered materials;
biomass;
wind and wave energy.
Reporting is optional.

(h) Net total energy use The annual quantity of fuel and public supply electricity from
(MWh per annum) all sources directly consumed by the installation, minus the
annual quantity of energy which is produced by the
installation and exported to be used off-site, e.g. exports of
electricity, heat, steam. (h) = (a) -(c) - (heat/steam exports).

Guidance on calculating and reporting quantities

We will use the data from items (b) and (c) to calculate your installation’s net electricity usage.
If electricity production is your installation’s primary purpose, your answer to item (c) will be
the same as in Section 1.

Calculate your electricity consumption as primary energy. This means the energy used to
generate the electricity. For units of electricity from the public supply, calculate this by
multiplying the delivered energy by a factor of 2.4 to account for the energy loss in
transmission. For units of electricity imported from a dedicated electricity generating plant
outside the installation, apply an appropriate factor to calculate primary energy. However, for
energy generated at the installation, whether used there or sold, calculate as delivered
electricity only (as you are already reporting the primary energy input under the appropriate
fuel consumption heading).

Report all fuel consumption as MWh or MWh equivalent. You will need to convert fuel masses
and volumes into energy equivalents using appropriate calorific values (CV*, usually given as
3
Kj or MJ per tonne or m ). Multiply the CV by the mass or volume of annual fuel use, then
convert from Joules to MWh, using 1MWh = 3.6GJ. Calculate fuel consumption based on the
units of energy input to the plant (e.g. fuel into the CHP plant), not the units of energy
produced by the plant.

*Use the fuel’s net CV rather than gross CV as the basis of calculation. Net CV measures the actual
energy value of the fuel after subtraction of the energy required to vaporize the fuel’s water content. Net
CV is determined by subtracting the heat of vaporisation of water content in a fuel from the gross CV.
Gross CV is determined by bringing all the products of combustion back to the original pre-combustion
temperature, and in particular condensing any vapour produced.

4. Water Consumption

METRICS: DEFINITIONS:

(a) Gross total water use The annual quantity of water from all sources directly used in
(m3 per annum) the installation. Calculate as 4(a) = 4(c) + 4(d).

(b) Net water use Total water used minus water returned directly to the
(m3 per annum) environment without off-site treatment.

(c) Mains The annual quantity of mains water directly used in the
(m3 per annum) installation.
(d) Direct abstraction The annual quantity of groundwater (borehole) and surface
 (m3 per annum) water directly used in the installation.

Guidance on calculating and reporting quantities

Include in Net Water Use:

• Water which is combined into the product within the EPR installation;
• Water not combined in the product but otherwise used in the installation (e.g. for
cleaning) and sent for treatment outside the installation post-use and prior to discharge
back to the environment;
• Water which is evaporated to air.

Exclude from Net Water Use water discharged by the installation directly back to the
environment post-use, e.g.:
• process water or cleaning water returned to the environment following treatment on-site
after use;
• pre-treated cooling water returned to a river or estuary;
• water temporarily abstracted from a canal to lower the waterline.

Where water is already incorporated in raw materials, the whole weight of the raw materials
including the water should be reported in the Section of the return called Raw Materials.
‘Incorporated’ means an integral part of the materials as they are received at the gate of the
EPR installation.

5. Waste Transfers (aggregated)

METRICS DEFINITIONS

(a) Gross total waste The annual quantity of waste arising from all process-related
production activities and transferred off-site for disposal or recovery.
(tonnes per annum)

(b) Hazardous waste The annual quantity of hazardous waste arising and transferred
transferred for disposal off-site for disposal.
(tonnes per annum)

(c) Hazardous waste The annual quantity of hazardous waste arising and transferred
transferred for recovery off-site for recovery.
(tonnes per annum)

(d) Non-Hazardous waste The annual quantity of non-hazardous waste arising and
transferred for disposal transferred off-site for disposal.
(tonnes per annum)

(e) Non-Hazardous waste The annual quantity of non-hazardous waste arising and
transferred for recovery transferred off-site for recovery.
(tonnes per annum)

(f) Net total waste Total waste transferred off-site for disposal: i.e. 5(b) plus 5(d).
production
(tonnes per annum)

Guidance on calculating and reporting quantities

Report the total tonnage of waste arising under each of (a) to (f) above. Calculate these totals
from individual waste categories that are reported to the Pollution Inventory as off-site waste
transfers, and also overseas waste transfers of hazardous waste.

Exclude liquid wastes transferred via sewer or other means to wastewater treatment plant
(they are reported separately in the part of the Pollution Inventory return which deals with off-
site transfers in wastewater).