CERTIFICATION PROCESS
LIFECYCLE OF A CERTIFHY™ CERTIFICATE
Following the audit of the hydrogen production plants, production batches of renewable or low carbon hydrogen will be certified and CertifHy™ Certificates will be issued. The life cycle of a CertifHy™ Certificate will encompass three phases: issuance, transfer & trade and use & cancellation.
To manage the issue, transfer and cancellation of CertifHy™ Certificates, each production unit or supplier holding CertifHy™ Certificates must have an account in the CertifHy™ Registry.
(*) A CertifHy™ Certificates automatically expires 12 months after the end of the production period. Expired certificates can neither be transferred nor cancelled anymore. Check the detailed CertifHy™ Certificate Expiry procedure here.
CERTIFHY™ CERTIFICATES ISSUING
Account Holders of the CertifHy™ scheme can register production batches and request CertifHy™ Certificate issuing from the Issuing Body.
Subject to the track-record of the Account Holder, Production Device and previous CertifHy™ issuances, a Production Batch Audit is required which is done by an approved Certification Body of the Account Holder’s choice.
The Issuing Body gives then clearance (or not) and a CertifHy™ Certificate is issued in the registry.
TRADE &
TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATES
A CertifHy™ Certificates can be transferred from one Account Holder to another, independently of the physical energy flow to which it corresponded originally.
Transfers or trades can occur either within the country of origin or across countries in Europe which form a part the EU-wide scheme.
Transfers are initiated by the CertifHy™ Certificate owner, they are subject to review by the Issuing Body time is reached.
CERTIFHY™ CERTIFICATES CANCELLATION
The CertifHy™ Certificate is cancelled upon use in the Registry, either when hydrogen is consumed or converted into another energy carrier, so that it may only be used once for making a claim on the hydrogen consumed.
A CertifHy™ Certificate cancellation is triggered by the certificate owner through a cancellation request, including information about the claim for which the CertifHy™ Certificate is being used.
The cancelled CertifHy™ Certificate is then stored in a Cancellation Account for traceability.
The owner of the CertifHy™ Certificate can cancel the certificate until expiry time is reached.
