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Through bilateral cooperation agreements, AGCS pursues the goal of enabling Austrian market participants to exchange biomethane certificates with market participants of other established, national biomethane registers in Europe. The cooperation agreement with the Biogas Register Germany, operated by dena, the German Energy Agency, was the first of its kind in Europe when it was established in 2016. In the meantime, further bilateral cooperation agreements have been concluded: AT <-> DE, DE <-> DK, DE <-> UK.
AGCS has been working with biomethane registries from seven European countries to develop a concept for international, cross-border ownership transfers of biomethane. The aim is to create a future-oriented, central processing and settlement concept for the standardised ownership transfer of biomethane certificates, for which the internal organisational and technical processes of all national registries have to be harmonised. For this purpose, in September 2016, ERGaR the European Renewable Gas Registry, was founded with headquarters in Brussels. AGCS holds a seat on the Executive Board.
In June 2021, the cooperation-exchange scheme "ERGaR Certificate of Origin"-Scheme was launched with the first cross-border onwership transfer of a biomethane certificate from the GB-registry GGCS to the NL-registry Vertogas. Find more details in the press release (EN, DE). In October 2021, AGCS Biomethan Register Austria has joined the ERGaR CoO Scheme, providing its market participants access to an increased market, consisting of AT, DE, NL, GB.
Read more about our pan-European activities to enable international ownership transfers!