REGATRACE – an EU project
The REGATRACE project is funded by the EU Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and aims to promote the efficient trading of renewable gases via guarantees of origin in Europe.
Our project partners
The challenge
RED II is to be implemented in the Member States of the European Union by 30 June 2021. Part of this implementation concerns the implementation of systems of guarantee of origin (RED II, Art. 19) and proof of sustainability (RED II, Art. 25ff) certificates for renewable energy sources in the electricity, gas, cooling and heating sectors.
The topic of an integrated gas market is also becoming increasingly important. However, it is not yet clear how proof of origin and sustainability should be handled when converting from one energy source to another (power-to-gas, for example).
Our solution
dena is advising and supporting the various target countries in implementing a guarantee of origin system in order to find solutions to these ambitious goals as part of the EU REGATRACE project.
The EU REGATRACE project benefits from dena’s many years of experience in verification systems. For example, dena has been operating the German Biogas Register for verification of biomethane and storage gas since 2011. Furthermore, dena is an active member of numerous consortia (CEN Standard, FaStGo, ERGaR, etc.) that deal with topics relating to the verification of renewable gases.
The effect
The project is involved in setting up and commissioning verification registers for biomethane and other renewable gases in the respective target countries. These are essential for a functioning and principled trade in green gases. In this manner, the EU REGATRACE project is accelerating the transformation of the gas sector towards greater sustainability. In addition, it develops verification standards for newly emerging markets. For power-to-hydrogen/synthetic methane, this goes beyond the usual RED II criteria such as renewability, additionality, temporal correlation and geographical correlation.
Verification guidelines
Verification guidelines were developed for renewable hydrogen and bio-LNG with regard to the issuing of guarantees of origin and proof of sustainability certificates as part of REGATRACE D4.1. In particular, the report addresses the renewable electricity purchase criteria for RFNBOs according to RED II, Art 27, such as additionality, temporal correlation and geographical correlation.
Guidelines for the Verification of Cross-sectoral Concepts (pdf on regatrace.eu, 1.9 MB)
The dena Biogas Register: https://www.biogasregister.de/
