by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) … First, the biomethane industry sets a 1st of its kind European Network to facilitate the tracking and exchange of renewable gas certificates and boost biomethane trading across Europe.
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In today’s Digest, what the REGATRACE EU project is, why and how they launched this new digital network for renewable gas certificates, how it plans to boost the biomethane industry across Europe, details behind Scotland’s first public access biomethane refueling station and what that means, and more.
Big Biomethane Boost
Let’s start with the REGATRACE EU project which launched a digital network to facilitate collaboration on tracking and exchange of renewable gas certificates and boost biomethane trading across Europe, which will help bring a big boost to the biomethane industry.
According to REGATRACE, EU leaders have committed to facilitate access to gas infrastructure and markets of renewable gases in the recently published Gas Package. The development of a European renewable gas market is essential to ensure that increasing shares of renewable gases are injected into our gas grids. This will support the decarbonization of the gas sector in the path towards a climate-neutral Europe.
By providing certainty and information on where, when and how the renewable gas is produced, renewable gas certificates give confidence in the green gas sector, encourage gas producers to inject green gas into the grid and allow for biomethane producers to sell the gas to all EU member states.
The REGATRACE Network is connecting different organizations responsible for the documentation and cross-border tracking of renewable gases across Europe. This will provide grounds for common understanding on green gas injection, leverage existing developments, enable discussion of new ideas or exchange of valuable information on the topic. Within the network, partners will be able, for instance, to follow and discuss legislative developments on gas grid injection or updates concerning the certification and documentation of green gases.
Who’s Involved?
This network has been developed in the framework of the REGATRACE EU project. It currently includes 13 organizations and institutions responsible for the documentation and tracking of renewable gas: Amber Grid, Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB), AGCS Gas Clearing & Settlement AG, European Biogas Association (EBA), Energigas, Energinet, European Renewable Gas Registry aisbl (ERGaR), Royal Netherlands Standardisation Institute (NEN), REDCert, Renewable Gas Assurance Limited (REAL), SPP Distribucia, Unia Producentów i Pracodawców Przemysłu Biogazowego (UPEBI), and Verband der Schweizerischen Gasindustrie (VSG).
The REGATRACE Network is open to any organizations, institutions and authorities involved in the verification and documentation of renewable gases, as well any associations representing producers, traders and/or consumers of renewable gas certificates. Organizations and institutions interested to join the REGATRACE Network can contact the coordinators of the Network via this email address: info@regatrace.eu.
The REGATRACE consortium is composed by 15 partners from 10 countries (Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Spain) working together to provide support for the biomethane market uptake. This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under Grant Agreement no. 857796. READ MORE
Biomethane industry sets 1st of its kind European Network to facilitate tracking of renewable gas certificates (Renewable Gas Trade Center in Europe)