Registration of production device
An account holder who has signed a service agreement with Finextra can add power plants to the GO register (Further information on the Registration of Account Holder page).
To register a power plant:
- make a service agreement with Finextra on GOs for electricity or
- issue a power of attorney to an account holder who is already registered (List of account holders).
The account holder is obliged to arrange the submission of net production data to Fingrid’s system for issuing GOs. The account holder is responsible for the accuracy of the data.
Power plant registration process:
1. An account holder can add either a power plant of its own or a power plant administered under a power of attorney to the electricity GO register. The account holder must add the power plant's verification document and associated appendices to the GO register. Approved verification methods are:
- a certificate issued by a certification body
- an approval decision for the feed-in tariff system
- European Energy Certificate System (EECS) verification (System operator's certificate)
- An application for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances
In the verification certificate the power plant's production method should be one of the following: hydropower, nuclear power, solar power, thermal power, wind power or wave and tidal power. The capacity of the plant is reported in MW.
Verification document validities
- A certificate issued by a certification body is valid for five years from the date the document has been signed.
- Verification by an approval decision for the feed-in-tariff system is valid in accordance with the validity of the said approval decision.
- EECS verification (System operator's certificate) is valid for five years from the date indicated in the document.
- Verification by an application for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances is valid for five years from the submission of the said application.
2. If an account holder administers the power plant of another producer, it must complete the attached power of attorney and add it to the GO registry in PDF format. The power of attorney form must be signed by the power plant owner in accordance with the articles of association.
3. At the time of registration, the account holder and Finextra agree on providing the power plant's net production data for the issuing of GOs. The power plant's net production data that is sent separately to Fingrid for main grid invoicing purposes may often be utilised when issuing a GO. Alternatively, the account holder may send the net production data of the power plant to Fingrid’s data system in either EDI or ebIX format.
EECS Verification
- EECS verification (System operator's certificate) is mainly used to verify hydropower, solar power and wind power plants. System operator's certificate verifies power plants with only one energy source.
- The account holder pre-fills the attached System operator's certificate and sends it to the system operator for completion.
- When the system operator has completed and signed the certificate, the account holder attaches it directly to the GO register.