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The deadline for submitting and certifying RY2012 annual GHG reports to EPA is Monday, April 1, 2013, one week from today.
Please note that Inputs to equations whose reporting was deferred until 2013 must also be reported to EPA by April 1, 2013, for reporting years 2010, 2011, and 2012 as applicable. The affected subparts are: C, D, DD (only 2011-12), FF (only 2011-12), HH, II (only 2011-12), SS (only 2011-12), and TT (only 2011-12). …
The electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (e-GGRT) is now open for 2012 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting under EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP).
When you access e-GGRT at https://ghgreporting.epa.gov, select 2012 under the ‘Data Reporting’ tab to enter 2012 GHG data. Updated reporting instructions are available on the GHGRP Help site at www.ccdsupport.com.
The deadline for submitting the 2012 annual GHG report is April 1, 2013. …
EPA is making new forms for GHG Reporting available to the public so that facilities and suppliers can begin preparing reporting year 2012 (RY2012) reports, due on April 1st, 2013. Reporting forms are MS Excel-based forms which capture specific data required under CFR 40 Part 98 and which users upload as part of their reporting. Reporting forms are not used for every source category reporting under the program. …
EPA has released reporting year 2011 greenhouse gas data collected under the Agency's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
For more information on the RY2011 data release, please visit:
http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ghgdata/2011data.html
To view and interact with the data through EPA's Facility Level Information on Greenhouse Gases Tool (FLIGHT) please visit:
In preparation for RY2012 reporting, EPA's electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (e-GGRT) will be taken down for an extended maintenance period beginning February 9th, 2013.
e-GGRT will be unavailable to users during the maintenance period which is expected to last until the week of February 18th. Once e-GGRT service is restored, users may use e-GGRT to submit annual GHG data for the 2012 Reporting Year.
EPA has published an updated XML reporting schema Version v3.0 for RY2012 which allows facilities to upload their greenhouse gas (GHG) data directly in lieu of using the web forms provided through the Electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (e-GGRT). Please note this XML schema Version v3.0 WILL NOT BECOME EFFECTIVE until e-GGRT is made available for 2012 reporting in mid-February (currently e-GGRT will only accept 2011 and 2010 data). …
Certain e-GGRT features which support user registration and certification of submissions will be unavailable on Saturday, January 19, 2013 from 8am to 2pm EST due to system maintenance. Other e-GGRT features will continue to be available.
An earlier outage at EPA's National Computing Center that prevented access to e-GGRT has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
EPA is experiencing problems with its National Computing Center hosting environment that may cause intermittent problems with e-GGRT access (including user-login). If you are unable to access or log-in to e-GGRT, please try re-loading the page and logging in again at a later time. EPA is working to resolve the problem.
In addition to the draft RY12 XML Schema released late last month, EPA is providing a public preview of some RY12 reporting forms. This preview covers the source categories where the collection of the inputs to some equations was deferred until 2013 (for the 2012 reporting year). Specifically, the following Part 98 Subparts have inputs to equations whose reporting deadline was deferred until 2013: C, D, DD, FF, HH, II, SS and TT. …
EPA has released a draft XML schema for several RY2012 source categories. For more information, please visit the link below.
http://www.ccdsupport.com/confluence/display/help/XML+Reporting+Schema+Preview
Effective immediately, EPA has upgraded e-GGRT to comply with new, strengthened security measures implemented by EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX). Every e-GGRT account holder that has not already done so MUST select three (3) security questions and provide answers to each the NEXT time they login to e-GGRT.
If you have not logged into e-GGRT since this change was implemented, e-GGRT will REQUIRE you to complete this process before you can move forward. …
e-GGRT will be unavailable at times between 5:00 AM and 7:00 AM EDT Monday, October 15, 2012 due to system maintenance. If you encounter difficulty logging into e-GGRT during those time please wait 5 minutes and try again.
EPA is experiencing problems with its Central Data Exchange (CDX) network authentication services that may cause intermittent problems with e-GGRT user-login. If you are unable to log-in to e-GGRT, please try re-loading the page and logging in again. EPA is working to resolve the problem.
EPA's Office of Environmental Information has completed scheduled maintenance and upgrades on the Agency's Central Data Exchange (CDX) which affected all CDX customers including e-GGRT users. Access to e-GGRT has been restored. Connectivity may be intermittent during the weekend as CDX runs system checks related to maintenance. For more information and updates on CDX outages please visit http://cdx.epa.gov/recent.asp