On 20 November RECS International participated in the first plenary session of CertifHy, a project for designing a EU-wide Green Hydrogen Guarantee of Origin. The plenary session was attended by over 100 stakeholders from industry, policymakers, academia and research and associations.

The Renewables Good Practice (ReGP) guidance document has now been released for public stakeholder consultation. We welcome comments and suggestions on the current version 0.9 to the secretariat before January 15, 2018.

Please register today for the Open Markets Committee (30 November) and the RECS International General meeting (1 December) in Vienna, Austria. The agenda and meeting details are now available here. Registration closes on November 20th 2017.

Dated November 13th the European Council has released their latest draft of the revision to the Renewable Energy Directive (REDII). RECS International has the urgent request to correct Article 19:8. 

RECS International, in collaboration with their partners, members and other stakeholders, has been following the developments around ISO/DIS 14067. There is currently a public consultation for which the RECS International secretariat requests that stakeholders and members take immediate action.

The Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) has released its data for Q3. The data shows production, transfer, export, import and expiry figures of Guarantees of Origin. The data is increasingly detailed, allowing for better evaluation of the renewable energy market at product level.

The Corporate Green Sourcing Academy and the Association of Issuing Bodies are organizing an informative webinar: The value of Guarantees of Origin: empowering consumers in the energy transition.

In October 2017 CDP published a new report: “Putting a price on carbon, integrating climate risk into business planning”. The report provides an overview of internal (business) carbon pricing activities by an increasing number of businesses and nations. It elaborates on the impact on business decision making and the relation to climate change measures.

The Guarantee of Origin (GO) has proven to be a reliable tool for allocating (renewable) energy products. Thanks to the GO, electricity can be reliably allocated to individual users, giving the final consumer a choice in their electricity product. Increasingly stakeholders are looking to implement similar book-and-claim systems to other products distributed through a single network, such as hydrogen. HINICIO, ECN, GREXEL, LBST and TÜV SÜD are working together to bring a Europe-wide hydrogen GO scheme to the market. Following the initial phase the CertifHy project is now launching pilot projects across Europe.