REGATRACE final booklet

From 2019-2022, REGATRACE (REnewable GAs TRAde Centre in Europe) worked with 16 partners and 15 third parties from 23 countries (AT, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, IE, IT, LT, LV, NL, PL, RO, SE, SK, SI, UA, and UK)

REGATRACE aimed to create an efficient trading system based on the issuing and trading of biomethane/renewable gases certificates/Guarantees of Origin (GO)2, with the exclusion of double sales. The founding pillars of the project were:

• European biomethane/renewable gases certificate/GO system
• Establishment of national certificate/GO issuing bodies
• Integration of GOs from different renewable gas technologies with electric and hydrogen GO systems
• Integrated assessment and sustainable feedstock mobilisation strategies and technological synergies
• Support for biomethane market uptake
• Transferability of results beyond the project’s countries

The project helped to develop the biomethane market in target (also for the establishment of biomethane registries) and supported countries.

As an EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 programme for research, technological development and demonstration, REGATRACE was considered, within the REPowerEU Plan, one of the reference projects on innovative solutions and research on barriers to and integration of sustainable biomethane to the gas grid.3