# Is my chlor-alkali plant covered by India's carbon credit trading scheme?

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Only if it is named. Chlor-alkali was in the first round of emission intensity targets under the 2025 target rules, but coverage is plant by plant. Electricity for electrolysis is the largest part of a caustic plant's emissions, so captive power records decide the number.

## How to check

1. Find the Greenhouse Gases Emission Intensity Target Rules, 2025 and any amendment.
2. Search the chlor-alkali schedule for your plant name and location.
3. If listed, note the baseline year, product unit and target for each compliance year.

## What drives the number

- Electricity per tonne of caustic from cell room meters, by source: grid, captive coal or gas, and renewable.
- Fuel for the captive plant and for caustic concentration or flaking.
- Production of caustic, chlorine and hydrogen, read from dispatch and stock records.

## If you are not named

You have no target, but obligated customers may ask for your energy and emissions data, and the offset mechanism lets non-obligated entities earn credits from projects under methodologies BEE has approved.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel, electricity and production documents into dated, fingerprinted plant records, so the monthly intensity behind a compliance figure can be traced to its source.

- [Captive power in a chlor-alkali plant](https://senseible.earth/answers/dahej-chlor-alkali-caustic-soda-captive-power-co2)
- [Caustic soda footprint per tonne](https://senseible.earth/answers/caustic-soda-carbon-footprint-per-tonne)
- [If a plant misses its target](https://senseible.earth/answers/what-if-plant-misses-ccts-target)

Sources: [PIB, GHG emission intensity targets for more sectors under CCTS](https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2217239), [Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, GHG Emission Intensity Target Rules](https://moef.gov.in), [Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Carbon Credit Trading Scheme](https://beeindia.gov.in)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.