Registration

The Estonian guarantee of origin system administrator is the joint system operator, who issues guarantees of origin in Estonia and manages the electronic database of guarantees of origin (hereinafter, the register). Operations related to the issuance, transfer, and cancellation of biomethane guarantees of origin are carried out in the register.

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 Industry Act.

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

Operations related to the issuance and transfer of guarantees of origin are carried out through an open account in the register. To open an account in the register, the trader submits an application using the form developed by Elering. The standard conditions for the use of biomethane and hydrogen guarantees of origin are an integral part of the application. In the account opening application, the applicant must confirm that they have read and agreed to the standard conditions.

To prove consumption of biomethane or hydrogen in road or rail transport, the trader must also submit an authorization for the electronic transfer of data from the register to the corresponding Environmental Board report in the Tax and Customs Board fuel handling database. Additionally, authorization must be submitted to the Tax and Customs Board, as data movement between systems is bidirectional.

According to Regulation No. 90 of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure, “Procedure for Trading Statistics on Biofuels, Biomethane, and Electricity and on Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” to prove biomethane consumption in road or rail transport, the corresponding biomethane must be injected into the network or physically delivered to road or rail transport. Consumption in the transport sector is accounted for based on the lower calorific value of the fuel.

A prerequisite for performing the cancellation of a biomethane guarantee of origin in the register is the submission of measurement data to the gas data warehouse of the transmission system operator and the registration of the measurement point in the register. A prerequisite for performing the cancellation of a hydrogen guarantee of origin in the register is the submission of measurement data in the register.

Application forms can be found in the annex on the website. To open a trader account in the register, the trader submits the following documents to biometaan@elextra.ee:

1. Application for registration in the trader role;
2. Authorization for the electronic transfer of data from the register to the fuel handling database.