Course 08 of 20 · Power Origination and PPA Desk Academy

Attribute Ownership & Claim Rights

Stage B, Structure, shape and risk allocation. Level 5 of 10.

Tracking certificate ownership, transfer and retirement, and what a buyer may lawfully claim.

124 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 02, Course 04, 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 · 124 chapters

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

M0 The Attribute as a Separate Thing Ch 1-11
  1. The Megawatt Hour Has Two Saleable Halves
  2. Who Issues, Who Holds and Who Extinguishes
  3. What an Attribute Instrument Actually Evidences
  4. Bundled, Unbundled and Why the Words Matter
  5. The Buyer Who Bought Power and Can Claim Nothing
  6. Where the Attribute Sits in Each Delivery Route
  7. The Seller Who Sold the Same Attribute Twice
  8. The Working Vocabulary of the Attribute Desk
  9. Why This Instrument Is Not a Carbon Credit
  10. Where the Rules Governing an Attribute Come From
  11. The Ground Ahead and What Is Handed On
M1 Schemes and the Registries That Run Them Ch 12-24
  1. Guarantees of Origin Under European Law
  2. The European Energy Certificate System and Its Issuing Bodies
  3. Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin in Great Britain
  4. The I-REC Standard and the Markets It Reaches
  5. North American Certificate Registries and Their Boundaries
  6. Compliance Certificates Under a Renewables Portfolio Standard
  7. Large-Scale Generation Certificates Under Australia's Target
  8. India's Renewable Energy Certificate Mechanism
  9. Non-Fossil Certificates in Japan
  10. China's Green Electricity Certificate Arrangement
  11. Certification Layered on Top of a Certificate
  12. Reading an Unfamiliar Scheme Rulebook in One Sitting
  13. When Two Schemes Could Both Cover One Plant
M2 Issuance Against Metered Output Ch 25-35
  1. Issuance Follows Metered Export, Not Contracted Volume
  2. Registering the Generating Station Before Anything Issues
  3. The Production Period and the Denomination of a Unit
  4. Technology, Fuel and Site Fields on the Record
  5. Deemed Output Earns No Instrument
  6. Behind-the-Meter Consumption and the Volume That Never Exports
  7. Issuance Lag Against the Buyer's Reporting Year
  8. The Support Scheme That Takes the Attribute First
  9. Partial Issuance and a Metering Correction After the Fact
  10. Serial Identity and the Block a Buyer Receives
  11. One Month's Output Taken From Meter to Issued Holding
M3 Ownership, Title and the Registry Account Ch 36-46
  1. Title in an Attribute and the Weight of the Registry Entry
  2. Which Entity Should Hold the Generator's Account
  3. Buying Attributes When You Cannot Hold Them
  4. Authorised Users and the Instruction the Registry Obeys
  5. Account Classes Inside an Electricity Certificate Registry
  6. Beneficial Ownership Behind a Broker's Account
  7. The Supplier Holding Instruments on a Customer's Behalf
  8. Forward Sale of Attributes Not Yet Issued
  9. Security Over an Attribute Holding, Named and Deferred
  10. One Group, Several Accounts, One Reconciliation
  11. The Attribute Register the Origination Desk Keeps
M4 Transfer and the Attribute Leg of the Contract Ch 47-57
  1. The Attribute Leg as a Separate Promise in One Agreement
  2. The Transfer Instruction and the Fields That Fail It
  3. Transfer Timing Against the Energy Invoice
  4. Delivering Attributes Through a Supplier Sleeve
  5. Splitting One Generator's Output Across Several Offtakers
  6. Selling the Energy and Retaining the Attribute
  7. Buying Attributes Without Any Power at All
  8. Cross-Border Transfer and the Scheme That Will Not Accept It
  9. An Instrument Sent to the Wrong Registry Account
  10. Transfer Fees, Account Charges and Who Absorbs Them
  11. Reconciling Transferred Volume to Metered Delivery
M5 Cancellation and the Buyer's Evidence Ch 58-68
  1. Cancellation Is the Act That Creates a Usable Claim
  2. Redemption, Cancellation and Retirement Across Schemes
  3. Who May Instruct the Extinguishment
  4. The Beneficiary Named on a Cancellation
  5. Which Reporting Year a Cancellation Falls Into
  6. Cancelling on Behalf of a Corporate Buyer
  7. Cancelling Part of a Holding and Carrying the Rest
  8. What a Cancellation Statement Proves to an Auditor
  9. An Error Found After the Instrument Is Gone
  10. Expiry and the Instrument Nobody Cancelled
  11. Cancel Before Publication, Not After
M6 Two Parties, One Megawatt Hour Ch 69-79
  1. Three Failures Hiding Behind One Phrase
  2. The Residual Mix and Why Everyone Else's Figure Moves
  3. The Generator That Sold Output and Attributes Separately
  4. Supplier Tariff Claims Against Corporate Contract Claims
  5. A Sleeve Where Both Parties Believe They Hold the Attribute
  6. Compliance Surrender and a Voluntary Claim on One Unit
  7. The Landlord, the Tenant and One Supply Point
  8. Behind-the-Meter Output Claimed by Host and Developer
  9. The No-Double-Claiming Undertaking a Buyer Should Demand
  10. One Plant Registered in Two Systems
  11. Two Reports, One Megawatt Hour, One Correction
M7 What the Buyer May Lawfully Claim Ch 80-92
  1. The Market-Based Method and What It Changes
  2. Dual Reporting of Location and Market Figures
  3. The Contractual Instrument Criteria a Claim Must Satisfy
  4. The Market Boundary Criterion and the Imported Certificate
  5. Zero, Not Negative: What a Cancelled Instrument Delivers
  6. Percentage Renewable Against Carbon Free
  7. The RE100 Technical Criteria as a Voluntary Threshold
  8. Science-Based Target Expectations on Purchased Electricity
  9. Disclosing a Power Contract in a CDP Questionnaire
  10. Market Instruments Under European Sustainability Reporting
  11. Renewable Electricity Claims and Federal Marketing Guidance
  12. Green Tariff Scrutiny and the Retail Claim
  13. Passing an Attribute Claim to Your Own Customer
M8 Matching, Granularity and Contested Ground Ch 93-103
  1. Annual Matching as the Convention and Its Assumptions
  2. Hourly Matching and the Granular Certificate Standard
  3. The Unmatched Hour a Pay-as-Produced Contract Leaves
  4. Geography: Grid, Market and Bidding Zone Boundaries
  5. The Additionality Argument and What It Assumes
  6. Emissionality and the Case for Marginal Displacement
  7. Should an Unbundled Instrument Count At All
  8. Proposals to Treat New-Build and Operating Plant Differently
  9. Storage in the Chain and the Certificate Question
  10. Nuclear, Waste and the Technologies Buyers Argue About
  11. Briefing a Sustainability Team While the Guidance Moves
M9 Drafting and Administering the Attribute Leg Ch 104-114
  1. The Attribute Transfer Obligation, Clause by Clause
  2. Warranting Scheme, Vintage and Quantity
  3. Exclusivity and the Single-Claim Undertaking
  4. Remedies When the Instruments Do Not Arrive
  5. Pricing the Attribute Leg, Named and Deferred
  6. Who Carries the Risk a Scheme Is Withdrawn
  7. A Change of Scheme Rules Inside a Long Term
  8. The Evidence File Behind One Reporting Year
  9. Assurance Over an Attribute Position
  10. The Control That Stops One Person Selling and Cancelling
  11. Who Actually Does This Work on an Origination Desk
M10 A Worked Attribute Leg and the Limits Ch 115-124
  1. A Worked Attribute Leg, Part One: The Mandate and the Plant
  2. A Worked Attribute Leg, Part Two: Issuance and Transfer
  3. A Worked Attribute Leg, Part Three: Cancellation and the Sentence
  4. A Worked Attribute Leg, Part Four: A Duplicate Surfaces
  5. Comparing Two Offers on Attribute Terms Alone
  6. One Disputed Sentence, Argued Twice
  7. Four Convenient Assumptions Behind the Worked Examples
  8. What Attribute Ownership Cannot Deliver
  9. The Position Pack Handed to Next Year's Owner
  10. Where the Attribute Threads Continue

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