Part of the policy proposal for the Fuel Transition Obligation (the Dutch implementation of RED III) is to require physical separation of liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG), and therefore not to allow a mass balance system in which sustainable and fossil molecules are mixed and volumes of bio-LNG are traded administratively.
On behalf of the Bio-LNG Platform, a qualitative multi-criteria analysis was carried out to obtain a clearer picture of the advantages and disadvantages of four systems for sustainability accounting, or Chain-of-Custody (CoC) systems, for bio-LNG in the Netherlands. The analysis shows that ‘mass balance – EU’ performs best against the assessment criteria relating to policy, sustainability, market, and society.