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You must cancel your registration with CertiQ in writing. Changes cannot be made retroactively. You must always pay the full fee for the current calendar year.

Each producer is billed once for registration of the production plant and annually for membership.

First apply for the SDE+ subsidy scheme at Agentschap NL. Once your application has been approved, you should register your plant with CertiQ. We then issue certificates for the renewable energy you produce. As soon as your registration is final and the certificates have been issued, we inform Agentschap NL, at which point they can begin paying the subsidy.

That depends on the agreements made with your grid operator. In principle, measurements are made:

·            once a year for small connections (3x80A)

·            monthly for all other connections

In the week after we receive the readings from your network operator, you will be given an overview of the measured production volume. This shows when we received the readings and how much energy was measured.

If you think something is not right, please contact your grid operator.

Soon you will also be able to do see your measured production volume through MyCertiQ.

We issue certificates for the renewable energy produced by your power plant. These certificates allow you to obtain subsidies and prove the sustainability of the energy produced.

If you expand your plant under your current subsidy approval, you should re-register with us using the application form. Under the heading ‘capacity,’ enter the total power capacity of your system in the new configuration. In addition, state in the comments section that your current plant has been expanded. Your grid operator will receive your registration form and check the information. If this is correct, your grid operator will approve your application form and pass it on to us . You will then receive written confirmation and the revised data will be passed on to Agentschap NL.

You must distinguish between the old and the new production plants. If you have a second subsidy approval, your new plant is a separate entity, according to the relevant laws and regulations. You must therefore register the plant separately with CertiQ. Under the heading ‘capacity,’ enter the power capacity of your new plant. In addition, state in the comments section that you have received a second subsidy approval and have established a second production plant. Your grid operator will receive your registration form and check the information. If everything is correct, your new plant will be registered with us. You will receive confirmation of this.

In addition, make sure that the gross production of the old and the new production plants can be measured separately. You will need to have two gross production meters installed for this. For more information, please contact your grid operator.

Yes: under the Guarantees of Origin scheme, CertiQ must levy a penalty. Late submission will result in GoOs being cancelled, for at least one month, depending on how late the report is submitted. Late submission also affects your subsidy, if your plant is eligible for subsidies.

No: the legislation stipulates that an accountant’s report must be presented to CertiQ within four months of the end of the calendar year. No extension of this period is possible.

Yes, unless you only use one type of biomass, or your plant is a waste incineration plant. We will issue Guarantees of Origin automatically if you indicate, when registering, that the biomass percentage is 100% and that only one input is used in your plant.

There are two groups of biomass plants that do not need to submit an accountant’s assurance report: waste incineration plants and biomass plants with a capacity of 2 MW or less. However, owners of such plants must submit production reports. Note that biomass plants with a capacity of 2 MW or less are required to submit an accountant’s report for their production in 2011! All other plants must submit an annual accountant’s report, including plants that use only one type of biomass, such as landfill gas plants and manure digesters.

Yes, the Guarantees of Origin scheme stipulates that an accountant’s report must be submitted within four months after the end of the calendar year. This is the case even if your system has only been registered for part of the previous calendar year.