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CertifHy™ contributes to and promotes the sustainable production of hydrogen for all types of uses including energy, transportation, chemical conversion, heating and power generation, hence providing environmental, social and economic benefits.

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Our CertifHy™ Certificates scheme grants a tradable value to renewable and non-renewable hydrogen. It is therefore essential that the CertifHy™ Certificates scheme is reliable, accurate and verifiable. Controlling the information and the accuracy of the CertifHy™ Certificates is of critical importance.

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The advantages of CertifHy™ Certificates are economical, marketing-related, technological oriented, and they will also increase the role of hydrogen in the energy transition. CertifHy™ Certificates will create demand for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen.

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CertifHy’s™ mission is to advance and facilitate the production, procurement and use of non-renewable, renewable and low carbon hydrogen, fulfilling ambitious environmental criteria as well as decarbonization objectives, in order to protect the climate and improve living conditions.

Certification Schemes > Our certification schemes > GO Definition

CERTIFICATION SCHEMES

  • DEFINITION AND BENEFITS
  • CONTENT OF A CERTIFICATE
  • FOCUS: GHG CALCULATION AND ALLOCATION

DEFINITION AND BENEFITS

CertifHy™ has established a system of electronic certificates, called CertifHy™certificates

CertifHy™certificates enable EU-wide consumption of non-renewable and renewable hydrogen regardless of the location; by using a CertifHy™certificate, the corresponding quantity of hydrogen consumed acquires the properties of the hydrogen covered by the CertifHy™certificates.

A CertifHy™certificate is an electronic document providing proof that a given quantity of hydrogen is produced by a registered production device with a specific quality and method of production. The CertifHy™ certificates are maintained in a CertifHy™ Registry, a central database that will manage the CertifHy™certificates’ life cycle for every account holder.

The CertifHy™ Registry generates unique CertifHy™certificate for each registered production device and tracks them during their life cycle, so that double use within the registry is excluded. The CertifHy™ Registry is fraud-resistant and can provide reports for different kind of purposes (for the account holder itself, for competent bodies, for European and national statistics, for the registry administrator, etc.).

CertifHy™certificate schemes are typically in Europe, however CertifHy’s™ objective is to go beyond Europe’s borders in the future.

CONTENT OF A CERTIFHY™ GO

CertifHy™ GOs provide information about

The full content of a CertifHy™ GO is defined in the CertifHy™ scheme which can be found here:

 

FOCUS: GHG CALCULATION AND ALLOCATION

Our GHG calculation is based on a methodology developed by CertifHy™ in collaboration with its stakeholders:

The greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity as established in the CertifHy™ GO is based on CO2 emissions of the whole production pathway (“well-to-gate”) to produce hydrogen with a purity of at least 99.9%vol and a gauge pressure of at least 3 MPa. The “Well-to-gate” pathway means CO2 emissions from exploration to the production process, including transportation until the production process.

For each production pathway (electrolysis, SMR + CCU, chloralkali, etc.), CertifHy™ performs a case study and develops a dedicated GHG allocation method which is then used as part of the CertifHy™ scheme.

 
  • DEFINITION AND BENEFITS
  • CONTENT OF A GO
  • FOCUS: GHG CALCULATION AND ALLOCATION

DEFINITION AND BENEFITS

CertifHy™ has established a system of electronic certificates, called Guarantee of Origin (CertifHy™ GO) certificates.

CertifHy™ GOs enable EU-wide consumption of non-renewable and renewable hydrogen regardless of the location; by using a CertifHy™ GO, the corresponding quantity of hydrogen consumed acquires the properties of the hydrogen covered by the CertifHy™ GO.

A CertifHy™ GO is an electronic document providing proof that a given quantity of hydrogen is produced by a registered production device with a specific quality and method of production. The CertifHy™ GO certificates are maintained in a CertifHy™ Registry, a central database that will manage the CertifHy™ GOs’ life cycle for every account holder.

The CertifHy™ Registry generates unique CertifHy™ GOs for each registered production device and tracks them during their life cycle, so that double use within the registry is excluded. The CertifHy™ Registry is fraud-resistant and can provide reports for different kind of purposes (for the account holder itself, for competent bodies, for European and national statistics, for the registry administrator, etc.).

CertifHy™ GO schemes are typically in Europe, however CertifHy’s™ objective is to go beyond Europe’s borders in the future.

CONTENT OF A CERTIFHY™ CERTIFICATES

CertifHy™ Certificates provide information about

The full content of a CertifHy™ Certificates is defined in the CertifHy™ scheme which can be found here:

 

FOCUS: GHG CALCULATION AND ALLOCATION

Our GHG calculation is based on a methodology developed by CertifHy™ in collaboration with its stakeholders:

The greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity as established in the CertifHy™ GO is based on CO2 emissions of the whole production pathway (“well-to-gate”) to produce hydrogen with a purity of at least 99.9%vol and a gauge pressure of at least 3 MPa. The “Well-to-gate” pathway means CO2 emissions from exploration to the production process, including transportation until the production process.

For each production pathway (electrolysis, SMR + CCU, chloralkali, etc.), CertifHy™ performs a case study and develops a dedicated GHG allocation method which is then used as part of the CertifHy™ scheme.