GOs are certificates that verify renewable energy production and build trust between consumers and producers — and the European GO market stands at a turning point. Despite current low prices, the market is projected to grow sixfold to €24 billion by 2030. With sustainability goals everywhere, from governments to big corporations, the GO market has been capturing interest as it readies for expansion. But beneath the surface-level excitement, what really underpins this market’s growth potential?
Regulatory moves are what truly turbocharge GO demand. The EU created GOs as a tool to meet policy goals, incentivising private-sector renewable investment alongside government funding, a type of ‘de-risking’. This is because, by 2030, EU directives aim for 42.5% of energy to come from renewables — which absolutely requires GO mandates to drive demand, creating revenue incentives to make renewable energy development more investable. However, a large number of existing renewable producers started to receive GOs, and the market was flooded with supply. So, some consider a return to the GO price heights of 2022 to be unreachable without significant regulatory development.
Regulation is picking up again: the EU’s RED III directive now requires GOs for green hydrogen verification. With green hydrogen absolutely poised to transform heavy industries, this shift alone could make GOs indispensable, as green hydrogen is the most sought after type. On top of that, other energy-intensive sectors that receive scrutiny, such as AI and data centers, will definitely push demand for GOs even further. Big names in tech like Sam Altman of OpenAI are focused on energy challenges as they face mounting environmental critiques. RED III also pushes for hourly GOs, a crucial step forward in the efficacy and transparency of GO markets - expected also to allow producers to command premium prices during peak renewable demand, potentially bumping up GO sales revenue by 33%.
Additionally, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) brings 50,000 companies into mandatory sustainability reporting from 2024—five times more than current requirements. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) goes further, requiring companies to address environmental impact throughout their “chain of activities”, creating cascade effects as large companies pressure their suppliers to verify renewable energy use.
Beyond Europe, the global Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) market is growing fast, with estimates projecting a $111 billion market by 2030. Many big companies—Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nike—are committing to renewables in the EU, reflecting the inevitability of regulatory and corporate pressure to go green. Soldera is at the forefront of these trends, offering AI-powered tools to producers that streamline GO management and empower producers to capitalize on these booming markets.
This regulatory momentum & corporate preparation has been building for years and it won’t turn back now. To keep renewable investment attractive, regulators need to force corporations to use GOs, and hourly GO mandates are the immediate move here. The market is also about to encounter a real test in meeting high-demand, energy intensive sectors like green hydrogen and AI. GOs have therefore now evolved from merely “nice-to-have” to key tools in meeting sustainability goals — so, we believe there’s a significant likelihood that prices will rise.
Whilst this will be absolutely amazing for GO sales in the future, GOs must be sold within 12 months. Therefore, for producers, the priorities are clear: register for GO issuance early—you can't get certificates for past production. It’s also wise for producers to sell GOs frequently and at competitive rates. Soldera helps producers maximize value by aggregating volumes across multiple sellers, unlocking better deals through collective bargaining power. We handle all administrative tasks by 95% – so you can focus on core operations. For a hassle-free approach, check out our site and blog to get started.
Soldera’s Ecolabel Eligibility & Approval automates quality scheme compliance, unlocking premiums from labels like EKOenergy, OK Power, and RE100. Learn how continuous certificate monitoring, buyer preference matching, and seamless tender integration ensure no eligible volume is overlooked, maximizing producer revenues while simplifying complex certification requirements.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Ecolabel Eligibility & ApprovalSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera’s Aggregated Forward Sales pool future GO production into institutional-grade auctions, securing predictable revenues from 120+ vetted buyers. Learn how percentage-based allocations, automated transfers, and FAN (Frequent, Aggregated, Networked) tenders reduce volatility, attract premium bids, and transform uncertain market exposure into steady, strategic cash flow.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Aggregated Forward SalesSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera’s Single Counterparty KYC removes duplicate compliance by replacing many buyer checks with one unified process. Understand why this saves producers time, widens access to 120+ pre-qualified buyers, and ensures competitive bids without paperwork overload, making GO market participation scalable, efficient, and cost-effective.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Single Counterparty KYCSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera’s Aggregated Spot Sales help producers secure better prices and access wider markets. Explore how certificate pooling, tender-based selling, tiered price floors, and quality label screening boost sales performance. With no upfront fees and aligned incentives, producers gain fair, transparent, and scalable access to premium buyers.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Aggregated Spot SalesSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera's Device Overview centralizes production device data across 30+ registries. Explore how projected production forecasts, full EECS technology coverage, ownership mapping, and automated registry synchronization give renewable producers clarity, reduce errors, and enable smarter portfolio management, making complex multi-country operations seamless and scalable.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Streamlined Device OverviewSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera’s Scheduled Transfers automate Guarantee of Origin deliveries, eliminating registry complexity, payment coordination, and human error. Learn how automated contract parsing, multi-registry integration, and smart notifications streamline PPAs, cut administrative costs, and boost reliability, giving producers full visibility and control while freeing resources to scale.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Scheduled Transfers of Guarantee of Origin VolumesSeptember 17, 2025
Spanish Guarantees of Origin require coordination with OMIE, REE, and CNMC, where mismatched registrations often block participation. Learn how representation must align across all three and why even non-RECORE installations can qualify, though administrative hurdles remain high compared with streamlined European markets.
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Making Sense of Guarantees of Origin in Spain: Spanish GO Management ExplainedSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera aggregates producers and runs monthly sealed-bid tenders for spot and forward GOs, ensuring transparent pricing, fast settlement, and confidentiality. Learn how buyers gain access to competitive markets, quality labels, and tailored procurement strategies.
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Renewable Energy Guide: How to Buy and Trade Guarantees of OriginSeptember 17, 2025
The Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) runs Europe’s GO Hub and publishes essential production and transaction datasets. Traders use these to track supply, demand, liquidity, and cross-border flows. Read up on how AIB statistics, annual reports, residual mix, and national datasheets provide the foundation for profitable GO trading strategies.
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AIB Data: Can Traders Learn From AIB Statistics in Guarantee of Origin (GO) Markets?September 17, 2025
Norway’s June 2025 RED II alignment hard-wires GOs into EEA law, requiring cancellations for renewable claims. Explore how this curbs double counting risks, strengthens market integrity, and supports demand from suppliers and corporates, making the GO price outlook structurally bullish despite steady Nordic supply.
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Market Update: Norway Aligns With REDII: What It Means for GO PricesSeptember 17, 2025
Sweden proposes a 50 kW minimum for Guarantees of Origin, excluding most rooftop PV. Understand why this conflicts with REDIII, limits fairness, and risks harming energy communities. Explore how Soldera urges simplified, affordable participation to keep small producers in the GO system.
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Market Update: Swedish Energy Agency Proposes Guarantee of Origin (GO) Regulation Changes That Disobey REDIIISeptember 17, 2025
Soldera runs transparent, competitive auctions where the highest bidder always wins. Buyers benefit from sealed tenders, fast delivery, and strict privacy protections. Producers trust us for consistency and maximized revenue. Explore how our predictable rules, fair processes, and reliable execution make us a trusted counterparty in GO trading.
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Soldera’s Ethos: Why We Use Sealed Hybrid TendersSeptember 17, 2025
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A Producer Guide: Why Renewable Guarantee of Origin (GO) Markets Are Volatile And How To Use Volatility To Your AdvantageSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera’s Complete Transaction History centralizes all GO activity across registries with full audit trails. Understand why this eliminates Excel reconciliations and manual submissions by providing unified records of trades, invoices, contracts, and cancellations, saving compliance teams days of work while ensuring transparency, accuracy, and effortless reporting.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Complete Transaction HistorySeptember 17, 2025
Soldera’s automated contracting cuts weeks of manual GO administration down to minutes. Explore how it processes PPAs, forward sales, transfers, cancellations, and device registrations in any file format or language, with AI-driven accuracy, strict data privacy, and zero preprocessing required for renewable producers.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Fully Automated ContractingSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera automates device registration for renewable producers, removing the biggest administrative bottleneck. See how AI document parsing, integrated registry messaging, and automated issuance reporting cut delays and paperwork and free up resources. Instead of fighting compliance complexity, producers can scale capacity and focus on growth across European markets.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Effortless Device RegistrationSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera’s True Consolidated Reporting delivers real-time visibility across European GO portfolios from one dashboard. Explore how full lifecycle reporting, quality label compliance, automated audit trails, and multi-cancellation orders streamline operations, cut manual workload, and ensure transparency, turning compliance and reporting into growth-enabling efficiency for renewable producers.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: True Consolidated ReportingSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera’s Complete Inventory Overview replaces risky Excel workflows with real-time registry connectivity and AI automation. Learn how visual analytics, intelligent allocation, transaction tracking, and integrated registry operations deliver transparency, efficiency, and control so producers maximize returns and streamline Guarantee of Origin portfolio management across all markets.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Complete Inventory OverviewSeptember 17, 2025
Manual reconciliation of Guarantee of Origin (GO) transfers is slow, error-prone, and costly. With 30+ fragmented registries, finance teams face heavy admin burdens. Soldera consolidates transaction history, automates invoicing, and ensures fast payouts. Over 3,000 renewable sites already streamline compliance and eliminate spreadsheets using Soldera’s AI-powered back office.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Automatic Invoices & TransactionsSeptember 17, 2025
Soldera’s quarterly outlooks support both time-pressed producers and sophisticated risk teams, offering clear insights and actionable strategies. Integrated with platform tools like forward hedging, they combine trusted intelligence, freedom of choice, and optional auction execution. Producers gain clarity, reduce risk, and maintain control over their GO strategy.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Market Insights & Quarterly OutlooksSeptember 18, 2025
Volatile GO markets create risk and heavy admin for producers. Soldera’s Forward Advantage simplifies hedging by securing advance payments, premium prices, and automated logistics. Producers choose allocations, while Soldera aggregates volumes, runs tenders, and manages compliance. The result: reduced risk, optimized revenues, and consistent market access with minimal effort.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Forward Hedging of Guarantee of Origin Volumes with Soldera Forward AdvantageSeptember 17, 2025
Managing GOs across multiple SPVs creates costly complexity through fragmented registries, siloed processes, and compliance risks. Soldera consolidates operations above the SPV level while preserving legal structures. With a single dashboard, unified trading strategies, and automated compliance, producers gain time savings, optimized revenues, and clarity across entire renewable portfolios.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: Manage Guarantees of Origin (GOs) Across Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs)September 17, 2025
Renewable energy middlemen add costs with spreads, subscriptions, and fees. Soldera removes friction by charging only a success fee when a GO sale clears in auction. Producers retain full control of allocations and sales, with free platform access, registry work, reporting, and management tools. No sale means no cost.
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Soldera’s Pricing: The Success Fee Model ExplainedSeptember 17, 2025
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Virtual Energy Attribute Certificate (EAC) Accounts: Say Farewell to Fees With Instant & Borderless Market AccessSeptember 17, 2025
Guarantees of Origin (GOs) are costly due to fragmented registries, fees, and slow, manual processes. Soldera’s virtual accounts cut transfer costs by internalizing trades, unifying registry access, and providing a single dashboard. This streamlines compliance, forwards, and PPAs: delivering faster, cheaper, and more transparent GO management for traders, suppliers, and producers.
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Virtual Guarantee of Origin (GO) Accounts: Meet The Cheapest GO Holding Accounts for Cancellation & TransfersSeptember 17, 2025
Learn how Belgium uniquely operates four separate GO registries by region and find recent price data for Belgian GOs plus detailed renewable production data in map format.
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Belgium Has FOUR Guarantee of Origin (GO) Registries: Belgian GO Management & Prices Explained & What You Need to KnowSeptember 17, 2025
Learn how Soldera automates GO allocation for PPAs, making contract management smoother, reducing errors, and bringing clarity to certificate handling, with a handy example calculator to illustrate the process.
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Soldera Feature Spotlight: GO Allocation for PPAsSeptember 17, 2025
Physical electricity all looks identical in the grid, but renewable energy transactions happen through separate certificate markets that many newcomers find confusing. Understanding when to bundle certificates with electricity versus buying them separately could dramatically impact your procurement costs and compliance strategy. Learn why this market separation exists and which approach fits your energy needs.
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Renewables Explained Simply: Bundled vs Unbundled EnergySeptember 1, 2025
Physical and virtual Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) shape how energy gets bought and sold, but they work in fundamentally different ways. Understanding the mechanics behind strike prices, basis risk, and settlement structures could save you from costly mistakes in energy procurement. Learn why renewable certificates are essential to both contract types.
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Quality labels in Europe's GO system add depth to renewable energy certifications. Discover how these specialized markers indicate higher standards, from additionality requirements to ecological commitments, and learn why they command premium prices in the European energy certificate marketplace.
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Understanding Quality Labels in EuropeAugust 14, 2025
Here's why VC involvement in the GO market signals confidence—and how our recent fundraise positions us to scale smarter, serve faster, and help unlock real market value for clean energy buyers and producers.
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VCs Make Infrastructure Play: A Bullish GO Market SignalAugust 26, 2025
Navigating the international Guarantee of Origin (GO) & Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) market is far from simple. Fragmented systems, inconsistent protocols, and regional quirks make certificate management an administrative burden for energy producers, traders, and buyers alike. This article explores the structural challenges in Europe’s renewable energy certification ecosystem, explaining why an integrated solution is needed. Oh, and as a bonus, we included a highly detailed map graphic to clarify the landscape.
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The Guide to Cross-Border GO & REC Management in 2025September 1, 2025
GO/REC markets involve three distinct players beyond the basic certificate lifecycle. Each has unique roles that add complexity to renewable energy trading. Understanding these players helps navigate the market confidently.
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Who’s Dealing Energy Certificates? Key Players in GO and REC MarketsSeptember 17, 2025
The global renewable energy market is at a turning point, with RE100 shaping corporate procurement standards. This post breaks down the six key criteria that define credible renewable energy claims, covering issues like attribute ownership, geographic boundaries, and vintage limitations. As renewable markets evolve, RE100’s framework continues to influence sustainability strategies worldwide.
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Understanding RE100: What Are Credible Claims?August 4, 2025
Despite Trump's rapid Paris Agreement withdrawal and energy emergency declaration, market dynamics point to resilience in the climate transition. Tech leaders from Microsoft to Google are doubling down on renewable commitments, while state-level policies and the Inflation Reduction Act's economic impact in swing states create powerful counterweights. Energy sovereignty concerns, falling renewable costs, and growing corporate demand for clean energy certificates suggest this federal pivot may struggle to significantly derail progress. With global momentum and market forces aligned behind the energy transition, the path forward remains challenging but hopeful.
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The Guarantees of Origin (GO) market offers significant profit potential through strategic volume sales and timing. Fresh GOs command premium prices and must be sold within 12 months, making regular sales crucial for maximizing returns. With automated platforms reducing administrative burden by 95% and enabling volume aggregation across producers, even smaller renewable energy producers can now access better pricing and streamlined market participation.
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How to Make the Most Profit From GO Sales?August 4, 2025
EU's Guarantees of Origin market is projected to hit €24 billion by 2030, powered by new regulations and corporate sustainability goals. Recent EU directives on green hydrogen and hourly GOs are reshaping market dynamics and prices. With 50,000 companies facing mandatory sustainability reporting and rising demand from AI and data centers, GOs are becoming essential rather than optional.
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The Role of Regulations in Driving GO DemandAugust 4, 2025
The market for guarantees of origin (GO) for electricity may seem complicated. Unlike many other markets where prices are fully transparent – visible to all, harmonised, and straightforward – the GOs market operates mainly on the basis of private bidding transactions. Renewable energy producers themselves must look for potential buyers and study their interest and the prices they offer. Soldera offers a more straightforward solution for selling GOs, but more about it at the end of the post. Now, on to the price of guarantees of origin.
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What Is the Price of Guarantees of Origin? Here Are Some Public Price SignalsAugust 4, 2025
Do you have solar panels? Did you know that you could be earning more money from your solar panels? Now is the perfect time to join Soldera and turn your solar panel electricity into a real source of income through Guarantees of Origin!
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France's latest auction showed a sharp drop in prices. We analyze how overproduction, weather conditions, and policy decisions affect prices.
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February 2024 — What France's Certificate of Origin Auctions Say About Market PricesAugust 4, 2025
With increasing environmental awareness and increasing demand for green energy, European renewable energy producers have found themselves in a unique position. It is possible for them not only to sell electricity, but also to receive recognition and additional income through Guarantees of Origin. Despite additional revenue being on the table, a large part of renewable energy producers do not take advantage of this option. This is even more perplexing since there are simple solutions on the market, such as Soldera, that make it easier than selling electricity.
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