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Each EECS certificate is uniquely identifiable, transferable and therefore tradable, and contains standard information. For electricity and gas, this includes:

• the energy carrier (electricity, energy gas, hydrogen)
• a unique certificate number
• the issuer of the certificate
• the country of issue
• the date when the plant became operational
• the identity of the plant
• the location of the plant
• the date and time when the certificate was issued
• the start and end time (minute, hour, date) of energy production
• the energy source used to produce the energy
• the type of technology used to produce the energy
• the installed capacity of the plant
• the size of certificate (normally 1MWh, optionally 1Wh)
• the purpose of the certificate (whether energy source disclosure - either as a guarantee of origin or as a voluntary independent criteria scheme - or support)
• whether or not other certificates can be or have been issued by this unit of energy
• an indication of whether any public support has been received and, if so, the type of support (investment support, production support, both, neither, or unknown)
• an indication of whether the represented energy is released from energy storage and/or energy carrier conversion
• several additional attributes, some of which are optional, like information on carbon footprint, sustainability criteria compliance, label scheme compliance.