Digital Proofs in the E-fuel Value Chain

The path for green fuels have been laid out and it is clear that this is one of the BIG industry investments in the comming decade. Replacing fossil fuels for transport, industry and fertilizer production with green gas or liquid fuels is the grand goal. Hydrogen, methanol and ammonia seems to be the best suited candidates.

Investments have already beed made and large scale facilities is scaling up production as we speak.

Prior to starting SEKKO we have been working on how to enable this value chain digitally across Europe and two problems seems to continue to evade good solutions:

• E-fuel production facility certification as producer of verifiabel green fuels
• Certificates of green origins of fuels as they evolve up the value chain

State of green has been kind enaugh to draw up the value chain for e-fuels

To dive into this problem we formulate these problem statements:

• Current facility certification processes for renewable facilities does not apply as most e-fuel facilities are capable of and often will produce both green and non green, commodity fuels. A new certification process must be introduced to enable credible claims of green fuel production.
• Current markets for fuels handles fuel as commodities. Trading e-fuels as such will mean incurring great opportunity costs as these fuels could instead be marketed as green fuels. A credible certification schema and connected digital servives is needed across the value chain.
• Converting from fossil fuel consumption to e-fuel consumption relies on the ability to source green e-fuels on a continuous basis. Digital proofs of origin for fuels and accounting practices is not available to enable verification adequate for use in ESG reporting a further certification processes. Manual verification and accounting processes is an alternative, but a very expensive one.

To investigate this problem we formulate this business hypothesis

Digital services for facility certification, certificates of origins for e-fuels, agreements and accounting services can reduce costs and reduces risks in one of this decades largest infrastructure investment areas. Investors, facility owners and e-fuel procurers as well as traders and consumers need digital, automated services, but with minimal complexity of usage.

In the comming months we take a deep dive into this problem and business hypothesis.

Stay tuned