Registration

A trader is a market participant who performs transfers and cancellation operations with guarantees of origin.

Biomethane certificates of origin are issued, transferred and cancelled through the Estonian gaseous fuels registry (hereinafter the register). The register is administered by the combined transmission system operator, which issues certificates of origin in Estonia and maintains the electronic database of certificates of origin.

The standard conditions for the use of biomethane and hydrogen guarantees of origin set out the terms and procedures for using the register, under which a market participant can perform operations with guarantees of origin. The standard conditions are established pursuant to § 32¹⁰, subsection 12 of the Energy Sector Organisation Act.

Operations related to the issuance and transfer of guarantees of origin are carried out through an open account in the register.

To open a trader account in the registry, the trader must submit the following documents by email to biometaan@elextra.ee:

1. complete and digitally sign the trader role application (including the applicable terms and conditions).
2. the Standard Terms and Conditions for the Use of Biomethane and Hydrogen Guarantees of Origin form an integral part of the application. When applying for an account, the applicant must confirm that they have read and accepted these standard terms and conditions;
3. if biomethane is consumed in road or rail transport consent must be provided, by means of an authorization, for the electronic exchange of data between the Trading Platform and the Environmental Board's Fuel Handling Database (KKS) in the Estonian Tax and Customs Board's Compliance Documents System (VDS), and vice versa, as the data exchange is bidirectional (a copy of the authorization document will be forwarded to the Estonian Tax and Customs Board).

In accordance with Regulation No. 90 of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure "Procedure for Trading Statistics on Biofuels, Biomethane, Hydrogen and Electricity", in order to take into account the consumption of biomethane in road or rail transport, the relevant biomethane must either have been injected into the gas network or physically supplied for use in road or rail transport. Consumption in the transport sector is calculated based on the fuel’s net calorific value.

A prerequisite for carrying out the cancellation of a biomethane certificate of origin in the register is the submission of metering data to the transmission system operator’s gas datahub and the registration of the metering point recorded in the data warehouse in the register.