Registry User / Trader
All stakeholders who are interested in the marketing biomethane certificates can register as a “registry user”. The role of register user/trader covers all other users of the registry who are interested in marketing biomethane certificates and who are not biomethane plant operators, biomethane electrification plant operators or auditors.
The trading of biomethane certificates and the possibly related financial settlement take place outside of the registry, as the registry is not allowed to contain any marketplace relevant information. The transfer of ownership of the certificates is recorded in the registry.
Settlement of biomethane ownership transfer
In the first step, the concerned market participants agree on the respective energy quantity, potentially the quality criteria, and the corresponding price. The price information is not reflected in the Biomethan Register Austria and is not known to the registry operator.
In the next step, the seller initiates the corresponding ownership transfer to a business partner's account. After that, an active confirmation of the transfer by the potential buyer in the Biomethan Register is required, otherwise the initiated transaction will be automatically reversed after 48 hours.
In the last step, the purchased certificate is credited to the corresponding account of the buyer.