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CERTIFHY™

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.

CERTIFICATION
PROCESS

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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Here you can find our latest news, presentations, events, videos, documents among other materials related to the CertifHy™ project, our consortium and the different stakeholders.

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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.

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CERTIFICATION SCHEMES

THE CERTIFHY™ SCHEME INCLUDES TWO DIFFERENT CERTIFHY™ LABELS

A label adds new information to a CertifHy™ certificate to further inform the consumer about specific independent criteria. CertifHy™ certificates and labels are different. A GO is the identity card of the molecule, a label is a «flag» added on the CertifHy™ certificate and refers to different criteria. Labels can be added either to a GO issued under a National scheme or under the CertifHy™ scheme.

 

CERTIFHY GREEN HYDROGEN

Originating from renewable sources (defined in art 2 of the Renewable Energy Directive II) and having a greenhouse gas balance below a defined threshold, which is min. 60% below the production of hydrogen through steam reforming of natural gas (benchmark process with a current GHG footprint of 91 gCO2eq/MJ). This GHG intensity will be regularly re-assessed, as the emission reduction % targets are due to increase over time.

CERTIFHY LOW-CARBON HYDROGEN

Originating from non-renewable origin, nuclear or fossil energy using carbon capture and storage (CCS) and potentially carbon capture and utilization (CCU) which is yet to be defined by European Law and having a greenhouse gas balance below a defined threshold, which is min. 60% below the production of hydrogen through steam reforming of natural gas (benchmark process with a current GHG footprint of 91 gCO2eq/MJ.) This GHG intensity will be regularly re-assessed, as the emission reduction % targets are due to increase over time.

CERTIFHY™ GREEN HYDROGEN

Originating from renewable sources (defined in art 2 of the Renewable Energy Directive II) and having a greenhouse gas balance below a defined threshold, which is min. 60% below the production of hydrogen through steam reforming of natural gas (benchmark process with a current GHG footprint of 91 gCO2eq/MJ). This GHG intensity will be regularly re-assessed, as the emission reduction % targets are due to increase over time.

CERTIFHY™ LOW-CARBON HYDROGEN

Originating from non-renewable origin, nuclear or fossil energy using carbon capture and storage (CCS) and potentially carbon capture and utilization (CCU) which is yet to be defined by European Law and having a greenhouse gas balance below a defined threshold, which is min. 60% below the production of hydrogen through steam reforming of natural gas (benchmark process with a current GHG footprint of 91 gCO2eq/MJ). This GHG intensity will be regularly re-assessed, as the emission reduction % targets are due to increase over time.

USE CASE

THE PRODUCTS ELIGIBLE FOR THE CERTIFHY™ LABELS ARE

  • Wind/solar/hydro electricity production. Those production processes have zero GHG emissions, hence zero carbon intensity by European convention.
  • Biomass based production, which could come with GHG emissions as defined by RED II
  • Nuclear or fossil energy using CCS (carbon capture and storage) & potentially CCU (carbon capture and utilization) which is yet to be defined by the European law.

The carbon intensity limit for renewable and non-renewable H2 is fixed at 60% below the amount of GHG emissions from a Steam Methane Reformer (SMR), being current Best Available Technology (BAT) for merchant H2 production. The GHG intensity of the BAT will be regularly re-assessed, and the emission reduction %  targets are to increase over time.

The GHG intensity of H2 production batches that are not receiving any CertifHy™ label need to remain below the BAT benchmark. (e.g. Electrolysers using grid electivity when the RE plant is not producing).