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Published via our EnergyIQ platform, RepuTex’s Carbon Intelligence service combines our award-winning research insights with our industry-leading market data and price information, providing decision makers with a detailed view of the Australian carbon market today – and the forces that will shape it tomorrow.

Did you know: With 1,500 users from 150+ companies, EnergyIQ is Australia’s largest carbon research platform. Our clients make up >85% of Safeguard Mechanism emissions, >90% of ACCUs issued, and >90% of traded volumes.

RepuTex is the largest price reporting agency for the Australian carbon market, backed by our industry-leading coverage of the traded market, and our independent, IOSCO-aligned price reporting methodology.

Did you know: In 2024-25, our coverage of the traded Australian carbon market (spot and derivatives reported transactions) was 1.8x the volume of any other single market data source.

Our prices and market data content includes:

• 50+ ACCU price assessments – Daily price assessments for all traded methods, and our market-leading ACCU price benchmark, launched in 2018, underpinned by our Survey Panel price discovery process.
• Trade log – Daily log of all spot and derivatives reported trades including full history of over 5,000 transactions, dating back to the commencement of spot trading in 2017-18.
• Forward curves – Daily forward curves for all methods, aligned to our cost of carry/overnight index swap (OIS) price model, extending over 84-months (7-years).
• Derivatives settlements – Detailed breakdown of options and forward settlements.
• Extended analytics – Deep dive into underlying market trends including rolling averages, seasonality, volatility, bid-ask spreads and market at close data.

Did you know: Our market data underpins the government’s “default price” under the Safeguard Mechanism, which sets the standard price for carbon units under Australia’s compliance scheme.

All RepuTex prices and benchmarks are published via our IOSCO-aligned daily Survey Panel process, with authorised market data submitters directly reporting market activity to our Melbourne-based price assessment team.

In 2023–24, RepuTex became the first Australian price reporting agency (PRA) to comply with the International Organization of Securities Commission’s PRA Principles, governing global commodity benchmarks. This established a recognised price benchmark for Australia’s carbon market.

What makes PRAs, and our price benchmarks, IOSCO-compliant?

• Independent: We have no vested interest in the markets we report on. Unlike banks, brokers, or trading platforms, we are not compensated by transaction volume or value. We do not own or trade units we price.
• Transparent: Our methodology and governance framework ensures data quality and integrity, with strict exclusion rules for related-party or anomalous trades that can distort pricing.
• On the ground experts: Our assessment team is based in Australia, with deep understanding of local market structures, behaviour, and participants – underpinned by our large client footprint.
• Auditable: Our methodology, governance and control processes are subject external assurance each year (by BDO) to confirm compliance with the IOSCO PRA Principles.

Did you know: As an auditable reference price, our benchmarks may be adopted as a Commodity Reference Price (CRP) to set fair market value in financial disclosures, contracts, and mark-to-market valuations.

Our award-winning research lies at the heart of our Carbon Intelligence service.

RepuTex research has shaped Australian energy and climate thinking for over two decades, providing trusted forward-looking insights to key trading, strategy and policy decision makers.

Our subscriber research content includes:

• Quarterly Carbon Market Outlook (CMO) – Our flagship CMO, published each quarter, forecasts ACCU and SMC prices over a 10-year horizon, along with underlying supply-demand fundamentals.
• Scenario analysis – Access our in-house Central Case view of market development, and our alternative H/M/L pathways based on changing technology costs, and policy sensitivities.
• Policy Risk Matrix – Mapping of key risks likely to impact the market, including regulatory risks, market risks, political risks, and changes under the 2026-27 Safeguard Mechanism policy review.
• In-depth modelling outcomes – Access the full depth of our modelling each quarter, including our full Technical Report (85 pages), standalone Scenario Analysis report, and short-form Summary Briefing (10 pages).
• Topical analyst insights – Stay on top of the key themes impacting the market via our weekly market update, regular analyst insights and briefing reports, and our in-person events and online webinars.

Did you know: Our research has supported some of the largest policy developments in Australia, including setting Australia’s national emissions target and NDC, and the design of Safeguard Mechanism reforms. Each year, our modelling underpins Australia’s emissions projections, published by the Australian Government.

Our cost curves and technical datasets provide the analytical foundation behind our research services – giving you direct access to the inputs that underpin our modelling.

Presented via our data explorers and tools, drill down into key areas of underlying focus, such as decarbonisation technology costs, total potential, and readiness, or company-level outcomes, such as forecast compliance demand.

Our technical data tools and content includes:

• Compliance Explorer – Interactive tool to view forecast Safeguard Mechanism compliance demand and underlying metrics (e.g. facility baselines, SMC creation, net position), by total market, region, and sector.
• Company Data – Drill down into our proprietary company and asset-level forecast datasets, including emissions, decarbonisation uptake, and compliance position.
• Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves – View technology costs at the regional level, with local input costs, availability constraints, and non-financial barriers (technical, environmental, commercial and institutional).
• Technology potential and uptake – Evaluate theoretical abatement potential, commercial readiness, and forecast adoption, showing when key technologies may become viable and scale.
• Offset supply curves – Long-run marginal cost (LRMC) of carbon offset supply and total potential by method.

Our technical datasets and tools can be accessed within our subscription packages, or as standalone modules, providing you the flexibility to access deeper knowledge to suit your needs – when you need it.

Our Carbon Intelligence service includes open access to our research team, giving you a clear line of sight into our modelling inputs and outputs, recent trading conditions and price formation, and key policy events. Use the “Ask an Analyst” chat function within our EnergyIQ platform, or contact our team for a direct briefing.

No counter. No limit. Direct access when you need it.

Data & analytics firm of the year – 2024 and 2025 (Energy Risk Asia)

RepuTex is proud to have been recognised as the “Data & analytics firm of the year” at the Energy Risk Asia Awards – winning the award for two consecutive years over 2024 and 2025.

The Energy Risk Asia Awards acknowledge excellence in firms that have contributed positively to energy risk management in the Asian commodities markets. Specifically, the award recognised RepuTex as the leading provider of data and intelligence resources for the Australian carbon and electricity markets.

RepuTex named “default price” market data provider by Australian Government 

In 2024–25, RepuTex was named the “Default Prescribed Unit Price” (DPUP) market data provider by the Australian Government, with our transaction data used to set the standard price for prescribed carbon units under the Safeguard Mechanism compliance scheme.

AustCham Westpac Australia-China Business Awards

RepuTex was recognised as the winner of the AustCham China Light and Power Australia China Business Award for energy and climate research across Asia-Pacific.

Accreditation under IOSCO PRA Principles

In 2023-24 RepuTex became the first price reporting agency to meet compliance under the International Organization of Securities Commission’s Principles for Price Reporting Agencies for an Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) price benchmark.