Course 06 of 20 · Hydrogen Desk Academy

Certification & Carbon-Intensity Evidence

Stage B, Policy, certification and offtake. Level 3 of 10.

Producing and auditing carbon-intensity evidence under a named scheme: data chain, system boundaries, verification, and what happens when evidence fails.

129 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 02, Course 03, Course 05

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

11 modules · 129 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 The Dossier That Travels With the Kilogramme Ch 1-9
  1. Why a Kilogramme Arrives With a Dossier
  2. Carbon Intensity as a Ratio Per Kilogramme
  3. The Certificate and the Calculation Are Two Things
  4. Renewable, Low-Carbon and Clean Are Separate Definitions
  5. Who Demands Evidence and What Each One Wants
  6. The Working Vocabulary of Hydrogen Evidence
  7. Nothing Here Assumes the Market Arrives
  8. What Is Assumed From Earlier Work
  9. The Route Ahead and What Is Handed On
M1 Scheme Owners, Verifiers and Recognition Ch 10-20
  1. The Scheme Owner and the Document Set It Publishes
  2. Standard, Methodology, Annex and Calculator
  3. The Certification Body You Contract and Pay
  4. Who Accredits the Verifier of a Hydrogen Score
  5. The Auditor as a Named Individual With Hydrogen Competence
  6. Independence When the Developer Chooses the Verifier
  7. How a Government Comes to Accept a Private Scheme
  8. Recognition Is a Grant With a Scope and an Expiry
  9. Operating, Recognised, Piloted or Proposed
  10. Reading an Unfamiliar Hydrogen Scheme in One Sitting
  11. Why a Project Usually Needs More Than One Certification
M2 The Named Schemes, One at a Time Ch 21-34
  1. CertifHy and the European Guarantee of Origin for Hydrogen
  2. The European Renewable Fuel of Non-Biological Origin Route
  3. ISCC as a Recognised Route for Hydrogen and Derivatives
  4. The European Low-Carbon Hydrogen Methodology
  5. The United Kingdom Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard
  6. ISO Technical Specification 19870 and the Carrier Parts
  7. The IPHE Methodology and Why Governments Wrote One Together
  8. The United States Tax Credit and Its Prescribed Model
  9. Canada's Fuel Lifecycle Model and Investment Credit
  10. Australia's Guarantee of Origin Scheme
  11. India's Green Hydrogen Standard and Its Certification Build-Out
  12. Japan, Korea and Certification Attached to Procurement
  13. Voluntary Standards Outside Any Government Route
  14. Selecting the Certification Set for an Export Project
M3 Drawing the System Boundary Ch 35-46
  1. What a System Boundary Decides, and the Direction It Moves
  2. Well to Gate, and Which Gate
  3. The Upstream Edge for a Methane-Fed Plant
  4. The Upstream Edge for an Electrolytic Plant
  5. Capital Goods and Construction Inside or Outside
  6. Auxiliary Loads, Utilities and the Site Fence
  7. Conditioning: Compression, Liquefaction and Carrier Synthesis
  8. The Transport Leg and the Standard That Covers It
  9. Reconversion at the Far End
  10. Captured Carbon Dioxide Leaving the Boundary
  11. Oxygen, Heat and Other Co-Products
  12. One Plant, Three Boundaries, Three Figures
M4 The Data Chain Behind a Score Ch 47-58
  1. The Data Chain as the Thing Actually Audited
  2. Metering the Hydrogen Produced
  3. Metering the Electricity Consumed
  4. Evidencing the Source of That Electricity
  5. Feedstock Gas Quantity and Composition Records
  6. Upstream Data You Cannot Measure Yourself
  7. Calibration, Drift and Admissible Instruments
  8. Default Values, Actual Values and the Tier You Sit In
  9. Time Resolution and the Record a Score Is Built From
  10. Missing Readings and the Substitution Written in Advance
  11. Every Parameter Needs a Named Owner
  12. Reconciling the Evidence to the Commercial Ledger
M5 Building the Intensity Figure Ch 59-71
  1. The Functional Unit and the Denominator You Divide By
  2. Which Gases Count and the Warming Multipliers Applied
  3. The Electricity Term, Built Term by Term
  4. The Grid Figure When You Hold No Contract
  5. The Methane Term for a Reformer Route
  6. The Capture Term and the Rate You Can Evidence
  7. Hydrogen's Own Climate Effect and Whether It Is Counted
  8. Allocating Between Hydrogen and a Saleable Co-Product
  9. Where the Carbon in a Synthetic Carrier Came From
  10. Losses Between Production and Delivery
  11. The Uncertainty Around a Published Score
  12. An Illustrative Electrolytic Score, Line by Line
  13. An Illustrative Reformer Score With Capture
M6 Carrying the Attribute Along a Hydrogen Chain Ch 72-83
  1. Tying a Certificate to a Molecule Nobody Can Mark
  2. Mass Balance Over a Hydrogen Production Site
  3. Book and Claim for Hydrogen and Why Buyers Resist It
  4. Physical Separation and When It Is Worth Paying For
  5. Injecting Hydrogen Into a Natural Gas Network
  6. A Dedicated Hydrogen Network as One Balance Boundary
  7. The Attribute Across Ammonia Synthesis
  8. The Attribute Across Methanol and Synthetic Fuel Synthesis
  9. Cracking a Carrier Back and What the Claim Becomes
  10. Losses, Boil-Off and the Debit They Require
  11. The Weakest Link Sets the Claim
  12. Double Counting Across Two Registries
M7 Verification and the Audit You Host Ch 84-96
  1. What a Verifier Is Actually Testing
  2. Reasonable Assurance Against Limited Assurance on a Score
  3. Materiality on an Intensity Figure
  4. Scoping the Engagement Before Anyone Travels
  5. Walking an Electrolyser Plant With the Verifier
  6. Verifying a Reformer With Carbon Capture
  7. Sampling Hourly Records Rather Than Reading Them All
  8. Tracing One Certified Kilogramme Backwards
  9. Verifying Data From a Supplier You Cannot Visit
  10. How a Finding Is Graded and What Follows
  11. Closing a Finding Rather Than Answering It
  12. The Verification Cycle Across a Project's Life
  13. Reading a Verification Statement Without Overreading It
M8 When the Evidence Fails Ch 97-107
  1. The Ways Evidence Fails, Mapped
  2. A Certificate That Lapsed Before the Cargo Loaded
  3. Suspension and the Volume Already at Sea
  4. A Qualified Opinion and What the Rest of the Figure Is Worth
  5. The Methodology Changes and Your Score Moves
  6. Falling the Wrong Side of a Qualifying Condition
  7. Retroactive Invalidation of Certificates Already Issued
  8. A Cargo Refused Because the Scheme Is Not Recognised There
  9. Your Supplier's Upstream Data Is Withdrawn
  10. Self-Reporting an Error You Found Yourself
  11. What Cannot Be Repaired
M9 Running the Evidence Function Ch 108-118
  1. Designing the Evidence Architecture Before Construction
  2. What Certification and Verification Cost
  3. Who Does This Work on a Small Development Team
  4. The Verification Calendar Against the Project Calendar
  5. The Evidence File Behind One Delivery
  6. Pre-Qualifying a Supplier's Evidence Before You Contract
  7. A Register of the Schemes and Certificates You Hold
  8. Systems: Where the Evidence Actually Lives
  9. The Shift That Actually Creates the Evidence
  10. The Internal Review Before the Verifier Arrives
  11. Evidencing a Score to a Lender or an Investor
M10 A Worked Evidence Case and the Limits Ch 119-129
  1. A Worked Case, Part One: The Project and Its Buyers
  2. A Worked Case, Part Two: Choosing Scheme and Boundary
  3. A Worked Case, Part Three: Instrumenting and Collecting
  4. A Worked Case, Part Four: The First Verification
  5. A Worked Case, Part Five: A Methodology Revision Lands
  6. A Worked Case, Part Six: The Commercial Decision
  7. What a Hydrogen Certificate Cannot Prove
  8. The Argument About Whether a Low Figure Means a Low Impact
  9. The Argument About Thresholds Versus Continuous Grading
  10. The Simplifications Made Deliberately Here
  11. Where the Evidence Threads Continue

The brochure gives each of these 129 chapters a paragraph on what it covers and what you can do once you have worked through it.

This is course 6 of twenty

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