As of now, you as a charging station operator, provided you operate publicly accessible stations in Germany, can participate in the quota trading system via be.ENERGISED. 

What actually is the GHG quota and what are the advantages?

The greenhouse gas reduction quota, or GHG quota for short, requires petroleum companies to reduce their CO2 emissions from the fuels they put into circulation. GHG quota trading allows these companies to improve their environmental footprint. Through be.ENERGISED, ChargePoint offers easy and profitable access to the German quota trading system. 

When activating this service, you secure a fixed price per kilowatt-hour of electricity, regardless of how the exchange price develops during the year. 

As additional information, for every kilowatt-hour of electricity that runs through a charging point in GHG quota trading, ChargePoint invests a share of the profits in renewable energy expansion projects.

How does GHG quota trading via be.ENERGISED work?

Step 1: ChargePoint receives the trading right for GHG quotas from you as the charging station operator for the entire amount of electricity that runs through one of your publicly accessible charging points. This applies to both public and private charging operations.

Step 2: ChargePoint handles the certifications of the electricity volumes with the local authorities and trades the GHG quotas with the petroleum companies.

Step 3: You, as the charging station operator, receive the income from the GHG quota trading in the amount of the previously defined fixed price, which is valid for the entire trading year. For details regarding the payout, please refer to the General Terms and Conditions, which are available to you in the charging station data sheet as part of the activation of this service (see below).

Step 4: ChargePoint invests part of the profits from marketing in the expansion of renewable energies, thus making e-mobility even greener.

How can you participate in GHG quota trading?

If you have a publicly accessible charging station in Germany (public means that the charging station must be registered within the BNetzA), then participation is very simple via the station data sheet in be.ENERGISED. 

In the first step, you must ensure that the charging station operator (the company that is registered with the BNetzA as the operator of the charging station) is also assigned in be.ENERGISED as the owner of the charging station with the correct company name. You can set this in be.ENERGISED as follows.

Under Infrastructure/Charging stations/Station list go to the blue data sheet icon. You are now in the charging station data sheet.

 

Then go to Edit/Basic information. In the field "Owner" you should see the CPO that has been reported to the BNetzA.

 

 

If this is not assigned correctly and the company (CPO) is not available for selection, you must create the entity in be.ENERGISED.
You can do this in the "User management" under Companies/Registered Companies. Go to the item "Add new entity" and fill in the company data accordingly.

 

 

After that, assign the owner as described above.

 

In the next step, you must activate the associated right. To do this, go to the rights management of the respective group under User management/Groups/Group list. Under the tab Infrastructure management you will find the right "Greenhouse gas quota trading", which must be activated. This activates an additional tab in the charging station data sheet.

As a customer with a Monitoring subscription, this tab is automatically available to you. You do not need to perform any further steps as above to enable the tab in the station data sheet. All other steps remain the same.

In the charging station data sheet, you will then find the additional tab "Greenhouse gas quota trading". The tab is only visible on stations located in Germany.

When you click on this tab for the first time, you will be redirected to the General Terms and Conditions.

There you will find again a short description about greenhouse quota trading and a link to the General Terms and Conditions, which are available to you in the form of a German PDF.

Furthermore, you will find the information about the fixed price for the trading year, for which trading year it is valid and from when to when these conditions are apply.

Example illustration: conditions do not have to display actual valid values

In the example above, this means concretely that you could agree to a fixed price of 0.135 €/kWh for the entire trading year 2023. This fixed price is then valid if you agree to the terms of use between 01.01.2023 and 31.12.2023.

The consent of the terms of use is only once and is valid for the entire trading year. You will not be asked for your consent later and will be forwarded directly to the activation selection in the station data sheet by clicking on the tab "Greenhouse gas quota trading".

Here you can activate greenhouse gas quota trading for the respective station by setting the "Greenhouse gas quota trading active" field to YES.

In addition, you have the option of specifying whether a renewable energy source exists at the charging station location. This field currently has no effect other than forwarding information.

Click on "Save data" to save the information and your charging station will participate in greenhouse gas quota trading with immediate effect. This step must be performed for each additional station that you want to enable for GHG quota trading.

Furthermore, in this menu under Terms and Conditions you will see once again the price you accepted, for which trading year it is valid, when you accepted this offer and a link where you can view the Terms and Conditions afterwards.

Payment transactions

In the payment transactions table, you will see an entry (transaction) for each month per connector about the amount of energy generated for GHG quota trading. In addition to the energy amount, you can also see the amount that will be paid out later and the current trading status for each entry.

"Open"

This means that trading with this energy amount has not yet started, the energy quantity is not yet fixed and this can still change if necessary.

"Quota certification ongoing"

This status means that the data for each transaction has already been submitted. This usually happens on the 1st of the following month (for example, transactions from July will change their status from "Open" to "Quota certification ongoing" on August 1st).

Other statuses that will be displayed in the future:

"Quota certification denied"

This status will be displayed if the audit by the Federal Environmental Agency revealed that there were inconsistencies regarding the transaction, and it was rejected for a certain reason (for the time being).

"Verification needed"

If the transaction was rejected for some reason, and further verification is required, then you will find this status with additional information in the "Information" column. 

"Quota trade ongoing"

The transaction has been confirmed by the Federal Environmental Agency and the verification has been completed. The greenhouse gas quota trade is in progress. 

"Quota trade complete"

This status informs you that the quota trade has been completed. The amount will be paid to you within three months (according to the GTCs).

"Paid"

The corresponding amount has been paid out.