Registration

A trader or gas supplier, is a market participant who carries out transfers and cancellation transactions involving guarantees of origin.

The administrator of the Estonian Gaseous Fuels Registry system is the combined transmission system operator, which issues guarantees of origin (GO) in Estonia and maintains the electronic guarantees of origin database (hereinafter referred to as the Registry). Transactions related to the issuance, transfer, and cancellation of biomethane guarantees of origin are carried out in the Registry.

Pursuant to Section 2⁶ of the Liquid Fuel Act, trading in transport quota certificates is carried out through the Gaseous Fuels Registry and Transport Sector Quota Certificates Platform (hereinafter referred to as the Trading Platform), both administered by the transmission system operator acting as the guarantees of origin system administrator.

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. provide consent, 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).
3. 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.

The application forms are available in the attachments on this webpage.

A prerequisite for carrying out the cancellation of a biomethane guarantee of origin in the Registry is that measurement data has been submitted to the Gas Datahouse and that the relevant metering point registered in the Gas Datahouse has been linked to an account in the Registry.

The standard conditions for the use of biomethane and hydrogen guarantees of origin establish the conditions and procedures for using the Registry, under which market participants may carry out transactions involving guarantees of origin. The standard terms and conditions have been established pursuant to Section 32¹⁰ subsection 12 of the Energy Sector Organisation Act. The standard terms and conditions are available in the document list on this webpage.

Transactions related to the issuance and transfer of guarantees of origin are carried out through an account opened in the Registry.

Pursuant to Regulation No. 90 of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure "Procedure for Trading in Biofuel, Biomethane, Hydrogen and Electricity Statistics" biomethane used in road or rail transport must either be injected into the gas network or physically supplied for use in road or rail transport in order to qualify as transport sector consumption. Biomethane consumption in the transport sector is accounted for on the basis of its lower heating value.

The origin of hydrogen supplied for final consumption in transport may be demonstrated by means of hydrogen guarantees of origin against actual hydrogen consumption at a metering point registered in the Registry, for which measurement data has been submitted. Hydrogen transport quota certificates are accounted for on the basis of the lower heating value of the hydrogen produced during the relevant month.