bp Australia

**Published name**

bp Australia

Would you like to subscribe to our mailing list to receive correspondence and updates on the Guarantee of Origin scheme?

Yes

How do you intend to participate with the GO scheme?

Producer
Consumer

How do you plan to use GO certificates?

To sell a product (including renewable electricity) to a domestic customer
To sell a product (including renewable electricity) to an international customer
To demonstrate eligibility/compliance with Government programs (E.g. Hydrogen Headstart)
To evidence consumption claims

Do you consider the proposed enrolment process appropriate?

Well balanced

Do you consider the proposed profile registration process appropriate?

Well balanced

Do you consider the proposed assessment process appropriate?

Well balanced

Are the ongoing obligations proposed under the scheme appropriate?

Well balanced

Do you consider the proposed certificate creation process appropriate?

Well balanced

Do you consider the proposed certificate completion process appropriate?

Well balanced

Do you consider the proposed certificate retirement process appropriate?

Closer regulation required

Please provide additional information if you don’t think the certificate retirement process is well balanced.

Further clarity is required on when consumer is overseas. Consultation notes that product must currently be consumed in Australia. We encourage interoperability with other country Schemes, which we understand is not currently taking place. Korea, for example, will require registration in its own certification/GO scheme and currently will not recognise the Australian process

Do you consider the proposed ARC process appropriate?

Well balanced

Do you consider the proposed certificate correction process appropriate?

Well balanced

What information should be publicly available on the GO Registers compared to privately available information that can be shared?

We understand that some information under the GO scheme should be publicly available. We are broadly comfortable with the public information proposed, provided the department has had advice there would be no competition law implications for participants in making this information publicly available. We support the functionality in the registry to allow for participants to share additional information (beyond what is public) with selected persons, e.g. customers. We are also comfortable with the potential data sharing arrangements with other schemes but do think it is important for participants to provide their explicit consent.

Please provide feedback on the product prioritisation and methodology development process

We are encouraged by the intention to design a Product GO scheme that is flexible enough to provide high integrity certification process for other low carbon products. We note requirements of other products may differ from hydrogen so we encourage provisions allow for different products to have different approaches to things like boundaries (e.g. full life-cycle is likely more useful for decarbonized liquid fuels) and for potential for more market-based approach to the retirement of the GO"s for other products where a more "book and claim" approach is likely to underpin the function of the market in those products.