AISEP
One Click LCA certified
PRINCE2 certifiedWhat makes hydrogen different under CBAM
Steam methane reforming without capture, reforming with carbon capture, and electrolysis represent three distinct emissions profiles for what is, on paper, the same product. A default value set at a country and sector average has no way of distinguishing between them.
If your production is genuinely lower carbon than your country's average, whether through carbon capture or a renewable electricity source, that's a real, verifiable advantage. It just doesn't show up automatically, someone has to supply the data.
What we ask for
The specific data that actually moves your embedded emissions figure, rather than a generic questionnaire:
- Production method: steam methane reforming (grey), reforming with carbon capture (blue), or electrolysis (green)
- Electricity or natural gas source and consumption per unit of hydrogen produced
- Carbon capture rate, where applicable
- Any carbon price already applied to production at origin
Prefer a document to send your own suppliers or production team? Download the full data checklist (PDF), it covers every CBAM sector on one sheet.
Common questions
Does blue hydrogen automatically get a lower charge than grey?
Only if the carbon capture rate is verified and reported. Without that data, a default value assigned to the country and sector average won't distinguish blue from grey hydrogen.
How is hydrogen measured for this purpose?
By production method and the energy source behind it, converted into an embedded emissions figure per unit of hydrogen for the specific product exported, confirmed on a discovery call against what data you already hold.
Verified at the source, not assumed at the border.
A discovery call to confirm product lines, production routes, and who we're working with, supplier, importer, or both.