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Low Carbon Fuels Certification Perspective:
Lessons learned from 20-years of electricity tracking
Jared Braslawsky
The International REC Standard Foundation

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Tracking Scheme versus Certification Scheme
For any discussion of hydrogen, we first need to differentiate:
Tracking certificate scheme Certification Scheme
Often just a statement of fact: technology
agnostic, non-preferential, fact-based,
removes opinions (eg: mass-balance tracking)
Defines criteria to meet such as technology,
location, use of water, CO2 content,
communities, etc.
Reflect stackable information on the product
and ownership during the complete supply
chain (eg: book and claim in electricity)
Often site-specific certifications that require
individual assessments for consideration and
adherence
Can be used easily to meet obligation quotas
(eg: RPS).
Can be used easily to determine adherence to
legislative requirements
The core element used to transfer ownership.
Only one can exist per unit of energy
Compliance with one (or more) certification
can be placed on the tracking certificate as a
label to prove adherence

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Hydrogen is complex
Legend: ATR: Autothermal Reforming / POX Partial Oxidation / SMR: Steam Methane Reforming / CCUS: Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage / DAC: Direct Air Capture / LOHC: Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers
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De-hydrogenation
Geologic
Storage
SMR / ATR /
POX
Energy
Sources
Hydrogen
Production
Pathways
Hydrogen
Storage
Cross-border
Transport
End-use
Markets
Industry Transport Hea ng Electricity
NH3
Storage
H2 Storage & Distribution in End-use Market
CCUS
Cluster
Price & Quality
Signals
H2
Purification
SMR / ATR
Regasifica on
NH3 Cracking
H2 Purification
LH2 Ship
NG/H2 Pipeline C-H2 Ship
Petroleum Product/LNG Tanker Electirc-drive Ships
LOHC Tank
NH3Tanker
C-H2 Tank
Compression Hydrogenation
Cryogenic Storage Liquid NH3 Tank
NH3 Synthesis
Desalina on
Electrolysis
Geologic
Storage
H2 Purification
Pyrolysis
Electricity Grid
CCUS
CO2
Carbon
Black
Natural Gas, Crude Oil, Heavy Fuel Oil,
Naphtha, LPG, Waste
DAC
Liquefaction
Electricity Production
Certification schemes may certify some pathways, but tracking schemes need to facilitate them all!

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A tracking certificate also needs to integrate other facts like
carbon removals
Interaction between
tracking certificates and
carbon removals is
critical!
Tracking schemes can
provide the clear
ownership of a removal
that was allocated to a
unit of hydrogen (eg:
book and claim).
Low Carbon Fuels Certification Perspective:
Lessons learned from 20-years of electricity tracking

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Electricity is core element of hydrogen, as such tracking it is an
initial criteria
Green hydrogen requires 24/7 electricity.
Fundamentally 24/7 green data is no different
than 24/7 green hydrogen
In February 2021, Emirates Global
Aluminium (EGA) announced the
sale of 40,000 tonnes of their
CelestiAL – aluminium produced
with renewable solar power – to
BMW Group.
It is also the same principle
behind green aluminium or steel.

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What about cross border trade?
YES! Saudi Arabia will develop a GO
system.
BUT, will that system will be 'supervised'
by the European Union?
PROBABLY NOT… expected role for
independent verifiers
Report from June 2022

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EACs already included in tenders for import of H2 and derivatives

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In Operation
I-REC(E)
I-REC(H)
In
Development
Hydrogen
Code
I-REC(CDR)
Preliminary
Accreditation
Carbon
Removal
Code
In
Development
BIOGAS
Code
Initial Stages
Point Source
Reduction
Code
Initial Stages
Methane
Intensity

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Measuring with multiple sticks!
Not just hydrogen, also electricity now under CBAM and
REDII/REDIII! Think about the UK!

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Jared Braslawsky | Managing
Director
The International REC Standard
Foundation
secretariat@irecstandard.org
Thank you