What happens if a green hydrogen plant goes over 2 kg CO2e per kg in a year?

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None of that financial year's hydrogen is certified green, and provisional certificates issued for the year are withdrawn. A second breach within three years bars provisional certificates for the next cycle and means applying for the facility certificate again. The test is the annual average. GHCI evaluates emissions over a financial year, the evaluation cycle. In the first year of operation it runs from the start of operations to the end of that financial year, and no cycle may run longer than 12 months. If the year's average is above 2.0 kg CO2e per kg, no hydrogen produced that year by the facility is certified green. First occurrence: provisional certificates already issued for that cycle are withdrawn. Second occurrence within three years of the first: no provisional certificates for the next evaluation cycle, provisional certificates for these cycles are cancelled, and the facility certificate must be applied for again. Third or later occurrence: MNRE may go further, including barring the producer from applying for a set period. A producer holding at least one provisional certificate that fails to apply for the final certificate on time is treated the same way. There is a one-month extension, to 31 July, on payment of a late fee equal to the final certification fee. No action is taken for events such as floods, cyclones, earthquakes or war, but only if the event is declared or notified by the competent state or central authority.

What happens if a green hydrogen plant goes over 2 kg CO2e per kg in a year?

The yearly test

Consequences of a breach

Missing the final certificate counts too

Force majeure

Worked example: two bad months

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