The figures, covering the nine months from April 2015, also confirm the impression given by separate documents released on Thursday in response to freedom of information requests, which suggest trusts are having difficulty meeting caps on agency staff.
Power plants that keep their emissions under the cap would qualify for credits that they could then sell, and dirtier plants would have to buy credits to meet their cap obligations.
There is a sharp increase in the CO2e price after 2045, as prior to this date the cap is largely met by switching electricity generation from coal to gas, but more radical measures are required to meet the cap after this date.
Companies might go broke trying to buy extra allowances to meet their cap.
To meet the cap, the Ryan-Wyden plan says that "Congress would be required to intervene", for example, by cutting hospital payments.
The F.C.C. gave Viacom, one of the two biggest American TV station owners, a year from the approval date of the new rule to meet the cap.
And despite the fact that France, Portugal and several others are already struggling to meet that cap, even after raising taxes and slashing spending, nations like Germany and Finland remain committed to austerity.
The analysis by emissions trading campaign group Sandbag predicts that only 32m tonnes of pollution permits will need to be surrendered to meet the cap on greenhouse gas emissions – a tiny fraction of the 1.9bn tonnes of carbon emissions covered by the ETS each year.
There are a few weeks to go to meet the CAP reform deadline.
Farmers whose management of land and livestock meet certain CAP criteria are eligible for EC payments, through a number of different, sometimes complex and overlapping schemes.
