California Code of Regulations
Title 17 - Public Health
Division 3 - Air Resources
Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board
Subchapter 10 - Climate Change
Article 4 - Regulations to Achieve Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions
Subarticle 7 - Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Section 95486.1 - Generating and Calculating Credits and Deficits Using Fuel Pathways
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) General Calculation of Credits and Deficits Using Fuel Pathways. LCFS credits or deficits for each fuel or blendstock for which a fuel reporting entity is the credit or deficit generator will be calculated according to the following equations:
(4) For Fixed Guideway Systems and Forklifts:
where:
Ei is the energy of the fuel used to propel fixed guideway systems, electric forklifts, and hydrogen fuel cell forklifts. For fixed guideway system expansion beyond 2010, and for electric and hydrogen fuel cell forklifts with model year 2011 or later, the formula for displaced energy in section 95486.1(a)(3) may be used with Executive Officer approval.
Table 5. EER Values for Fuels Used in Light- and Medium-Duty, and Heavy-Duty Applications.
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Light/Medium-Duty Applications (Fuels used as gasoline replacement) |
Heavy-Duty/Off-Road Applications (Fuels used as diesel replacement) |
Aviation Applications (Fuels used as jet fuel replacement) |
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| Fuel/Vehicle Combination | EER Values Relative to Gasoline | Fuel/Vehicle Combination | EER Values Relative to Diesel | Fuel/Vehicle Combination | EER Values Relative to Conventional Jet |
| Gasoline (incl. E6 and E10) Or E85 (and other ethanol blends) | 1 | Diesel fuel Or Biomass-based diesel blends | 1 | Alternative Jet Fuel | 1 |
| CNG/ICEV | 1 | CNG or LNG (Spark-Ignition Engines) | 0.9 | ||
| CNG or LNG (Compression-Ignition Engines) | 1 | ||||
| Electricity/BEV, or PHEV | 3.4 | Electricity/BEV or PHEV* Truck or Bus | 5.0 | ||
| Electricity/Fixed Guideway, Heavy Rail | 4.6 | ||||
| Electricity/Fixed Guideway, Light Rail | 3.3 | ||||
| On-Road Electric Motorcycle | 4.4 | Electricity/Trolley Bus, Cable Car, Street Car | 3.1 | ||
| Electricity Forklifts | 3.8 | ||||
| eTRU | 3.4 | ||||
| eCHE | 2.7 | ||||
| eOGV | 2.6 | ||||
| H2/FCV | 2.5 | H2/FCV | 1.9 | ||
| H2 Fuel Cell Forklifts | 2.1 | ||||
| Propane | 1.0 | Propane | 0.9 | ||
* BEV = battery electric vehicle, PHEV= plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, FCV = fuel cell vehicle, ICEV = internal combustion engine vehicle.
(b) Credit and Deficit Generation Frequency Using Fuel Pathways. Unless expressly provided elsewhere in this subarticle, credits and deficits for fuel transactions reported each quarter will be generated in LRT-CBTS accounts upon completion of the reporting period for the given quarter, if all the conditions set forth in section 95486(a)(1) are met.
(c) Calculation of Credits for EV Charging Using Fuel Pathways.
Creditsi(MT) = (CIgrid average - CIreported) X Electricity X C
where:
Creditsi (MT) is the number of incremental LCFS credits generated (a zero or positive value), in metric tons, for improvements in carbon intensity of electricity supplied to residential EV charging or for hydrogen production using electrolysis compared to the grid-average carbon intensity;
CIgrid average is the carbon intensity of California Average Grid Electricity pathway certified by the Executive Officer for a given year, or the applicable region's average grid electricity for hydrogen imported to California;
CIreported is the adjusted carbon intensity of electricity, in gCO2e/MJ, as calculated for a certified Tier 2 pathway or a Lookup Table pathway, including smart charging or smart electrolysis pathways;
Electricity is the total quantity of either low-CI electricity supplied for EV charging, or electricity supplied for smart charging or smart electrolysis and reported by hourly windows, in MJ, determined from the energy density conversion factors in Table 4; and
C is a factor used to convert credits to units of metric tons from gCO2e and has the value of:
(d) Calculation of Credits for Non-Residential EV Charging Using Fuel Pathways. The base and incremental framework does not apply to non-residential EV charging. Only one entity per FSE may claim credits for non-residential metered EV charging.
(e) Calculation of Credits for Other Electricity used as Transportation Fuel Using Fuel Pathways. An entity may generate credits for the non-EV charging applications listed in sections 95483(c)(3) to (6), which use electricity to displace conventional transportation fuel, using a carbon intensity for California Average Grid Electricity or Zero-CI Electricity from the Lookup Table 7-1 in section 95488.5, or a carbon intensity value certified through the Tier 2 pathway application process, and the credit calculation in 95486.1(a).
(f) Calculation of Credits for Hydrogen Using Fuel Pathways.
1.
Redesignation and amendment of former section
95486, subsections (b)(3)-(c) as
new section
95486.1 filed 1-4-2019; operative
1-4-2019 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4(b)(3)
(Register 2019, No. 1).
2. Amendment of subsection (c)(1)(A)2. filed
5-27-2020; operative 7-1-2020 (Register 2020, No.
22).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 38510, 38560, 38560.5, 38571, 38580, 39600, 39601 and 43018, Health and Safety Code; 42 U.S.C. section 7545; and Western Oil and Gas Ass'n v. Orange County Air Pollution Control District, 14 Cal.3d 411, 121 Cal.Rptr. 249 (1975). Reference: Sections 38501, 38510, 39515, 39516, 38571, 38580, 39000, 39001, 39002, 39003, 39515, 39516 and 43000, Health and Safety Code; Section 25000.5, Public Resources Code; and Western Oil and Gas Ass'n v. Orange County Air Pollution Control District, 14 Cal.3d 411, 121 Cal.Rptr. 249 (1975).
