Frequently Asked Questions

The measurement protocol describes your production installation, which energy flows there are and how these energy flows are measured.

Substantive requirements for a measurement protocol are:

• A description of the owner, location and connections, including the correct EAN codes of both the connection and the unique so-called 'green' EAN code, which you can request from your network operator;

• An overview of the various installations that are part of the production installation;

• The method of measurement, a description of the accuracy and, if applicable, the necessary corrections;

• The data of the authorized metering company, how the metering data is collected, validated and stored.

Your measurement protocol is valid for 5 years from the date of signature by your measurement company.

If there are significant changes to the measurements or to the production installation itself within this period, you must notify your metering company in good time. If necessary, the measurement protocol must be adapted accordingly.

The extension of your measurement protocol has not yet been digitized. You will receive an email from us about 3 months before the expiry of your registration with a document. The document must be signed by you, as the producer, and your metering company, and then sent in PDF to servicedesk@verticer.eu.

Make sure that the measurement protocol form is signed and received by CertiQ before the previous measurement protocol has expired. This way you will continue to receive your guarantees of origin.

If you have an electrical production installation and you notice that the measured values ​​sent in are incorrect or missing, please contact your network operator. The grid operator can still send the missing values ​​to CertiQ or correct incorrect values.

You can resubmit your measurement data if the statutory objection period of 6 weeks has not yet expired. You can do this by objecting to CertiQ's decision.

If incorrect measurement data has been submitted for your production installation by mistake and the statutory objection period of 6 weeks has expired, you can only submit a new measurement report under certain conditions.

This is only possible if you demonstrate that the previously sent measurement report contained one or more errors that cannot be blamed on you, the owner of the production installation, or your measurement company. Only then is CertiQ in principle prepared to consider the new measurement report. In other cases, CertiQ will not process the new report.

After guarantees of origin and certificates of origin have been digitally created, they are posted to a traders account. The producer himself determines who his trader is.

A trader can then start trading in guarantees of origin and certificates of origin. CertiQ offers a platform for this, the traders platform. A trader can sell certificates on the Dutch and European market via the traders platform, for example to energy suppliers, but also to other traders. The prices for guarantees of origin and certificates of origin are mutually determined by the traders.

After electricity has been consumed by, for example, an energy supplier or an end user, the trader cancels a certificate. As many certificates are cancelled as power is consumed. This will remove the certificates from the market.

You become a trader by opening a trading account with CertiQ.

Via our website you go to 'I want to login/register at CertiQ' (business). You then log in via eHerkenning, with at least level EH2+, with the account for which you want to apply for a trading account.

In the online registration form you can indicate whether you want to be eligible for private and/or commercial producers and whether you want to be listed on the traders overview (see 'Documents').

Part of creating a trading account is a Know Your Customer questionnaire. CertiQ is obliged to verify your identity as a trader.

In addition, you enter into a participant agreement digitally by registering a trading account with CertiQ. This contains the mutual rights and obligations with regard to participation in the E-certificate system. The contents of the Participants' Agreement can also be found under 'Documents'.

After you have digitally signed the application, your request will be processed by CertiQ. After CertiQ has verified your application, your account will be registered and you will receive a confirmation of your registration.

To view the status of your application or your details, you can log in to MyCertiQ with your eHerkennings account.

To start trading, you can log in with your eHerkennings account via the homepage 'I want to trade in certificates'.

(European) trading is only allowed if strict requirements are met.

CertiQ is a member of the Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB). The AIB organizes the trade in European GOs, among other things, by drawing up a set of rules ('European Energy Certification System' (EECS)), so that guarantees of origin are comparable in Europe.

In addition, the AIB also manages the 'AIB hub', an IT platform on which trade with standardized GOs takes place.

If you want to import certificates, your trading account must be known to the issuing body of the relevant country. If this is not the case, please contact the issuing body of the trading partner from which you will receive the GoOs or Disclosure certificates.

If you want to export certificates, the receiving trader must be registered with CertiQ. If this is not the case, please contact CertiQ via servicedesk@verticer.eu.

The Netherlands may only import and export guarantees of origin made by an AIB member body. In addition, the country of this body must belong to the European Economic Area (all EU countries plus Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland). This means, for example, that importing from and exporting to Switzerland and the United Kingdom is not allowed.

As a trader, you debit the used certificates from your account and mark these certificates as used.

You do this via the CertiQ traders platform. The manual for the trading portal can be found under 'Documents'.

It is not allowed to actively cancel guarantees of origin for future use. Only if you as a trader have accidentally cancelled too many guarantees of origin, you may allocate the surplus to a period in the future, but only after coordination with and approval of ACM. In this respect, a cancelled guarantee of origin may not be assigned to the consumption period beyond the date on which the relevant guarantee of origin would have expired and a cancelled guarantee of origin may not be transferred to another trader.

To do this, you complete the Participation Agreement Takeover Form and send it to CertiQ, together with the Additional Declaration for Takeover, in PDF format and signed. You can request a secure link to send the completed and signed form to servicedesk@verticer.eu. CertiQ will then send you an email with access to a secure link, through which you can submit your documents.

CertiQ is a subsidiary of Tennet and the secure link you receive is on behalf of Tennet TSO, but the documents you submit will only be accessible to CertiQ for processing.

Both documents can be found under 'Documents'.

A change in Chamber of Commerce number (Dutch: KvK nummer) is viewed as a takeover by CertiQ. You will need to register again as trader.