Emissions Banking and Trading of Allowances Program
The EBTA program is a market-based cap-and-trade program that implements annual nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide emission caps for grandfathered and electing electric generating facilities (EGFs) in the State of Texas.
Program participants are required to use allowances to cover NOx or SO2 emissions on an annual basis. The allowances available for use each year are capped at a level necessary to achieve a 50% reduction in NOx and a 25% reduction in SO2 from the total emissions reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Acid Rain Program in 1997. Participation from applicable grandfathered EGFs and electing EGFs (i.e., those which have voluntarily elected to participate in the EBTA program) is mandatory.
For more information, including applicability requirements, refer to 30 TAC Chapter 101, Subchapter H, Division 2 
and Chapter 116, Subchapter I.
Featured Items
- Credit and Allowance Registry
Search for sites, companies, projects, portfolios, certificates, etc. - Credit and Allowance Exchange
Current listing of requests to buy and sell credits and allowances.
Forms
- Form AR-1 (Annual Compliance Report)
Submit by June 30 after each control period. - Form AR-2 (Application for Transfer of Allowances)
Submit no later than June 1 after the control period.
Guidance
- Allowance and Emission Reduction Credit Guidance
Guidance for the certification of permanent emission reductions from sources subject to a cap-and-trade program.
Audits and Summary Reports
- 2011 Audit
Evaluated environmental impacts, program participation, and allowance transfers. - Trade Report
List of approved allowance trades.
