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Biomethane trading platform for utilities, traders and offtakers

List, match, transfer and retire certified biomethane GoOs across the EU on one trading surface. Internal order books, RFQ for large blocks, AIB-hub bridges for cross-border, T+1 SEPA settlement and a counterparty trust score on every desk.

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Built for trader desks, offtakers, utilities and aggregators.

What a real biomethane trading desk needs

Most biomethane trading today still happens over WhatsApp, email and bilateral spreadsheets. That gets you to your first ten counterparties; it doesn't scale to a real desk. The four things that change when you switch.

  • Standing order books

    Anonymous lit books for spot, RFQ for blocks above 5 GWh, named bilateral channels for relationship trades. One screen, all liquidity.

  • Filter by characteristic

    Buyers filter offers by feedstock category, country of origin, vintage, GHG range and voluntary scheme. Sellers price by characteristic, not by volume alone.

  • T+1 SEPA settlement

    Funds and GoO transfers settle together. Trades clear in a day, not a week of email follow-up.

  • Counterparty trust score

    Every desk, producer and offtaker has a verifiable trust score. New counterparties don't trade blind.

  • Cross-border by default

    AIB-hub routing is built-in. A Spanish producer can clear a trade to a German offtaker without manually rebuilding the export-and-cancel flow.

  • Audit trail = trade record

    Every trade ships with its mass-balance lineage, registry receipts and SEPA reference. No separate audit pack.

Liquidity, the right way

The biomethane GoO market is small enough that fragmenting liquidity is a real risk. Counterparty-specific portals and bilateral channels make spreads wider than the underlying market warrants. GooClear's marketplace is open to every link of the value chain — producers, traders, utilities, offtakers, aggregators — so liquidity concentrates instead of fragmenting. KYC is handled centrally; counterparty trust scoring lets new entrants onboard quickly without lending their reputation to bad actors.

What clears on the platform today

The product set is intentionally narrow to keep matching tight.

  • Spot biomethane GoOs — match and settle within hours.
  • Forward and term contracts — settled on the platform with monthly clearance against the underlying mass-balance position.
  • Cross-border transfers — origin-country export, AIB hub notice, destination-country cancellation in one flow.
  • Retirement-for-claim — buyer-side cancellation on behalf of an industrial offtaker with CSRD or FuelEU obligations.
  • GoO-plus-claim bundles — biomethane GoO paired with documentation supporting a specific compliance use (RED III, FuelEU Maritime, ETS).

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FAQ — biomethane trading platform

  • Who can trade on GooClear?

    Producers, traders, utilities, industrial offtakers and aggregators with KYC complete. Every counterparty has a verifiable trust score backed by documented credentials.

  • How is matching done?

    Spot trades match on price-time priority within a characteristic filter. RFQ trades go to a configurable shortlist of counterparties. Bilateral channels remain open for relationship trades.

  • What does settlement look like?

    SEPA Instant T+0 for spot trades up to €100k, standard SEPA T+1 for larger and forward trades. Funds and GoO transfer are linked.

  • Is the marketplace anonymous?

    Yes for the order book — identities are revealed at match for KYC and registry-side transfer.

  • Do you support OTC voice trades?

    Yes. OTC trades are uploaded as off-platform agreements and settled on the platform — only the GoO transfer and the cancellation receipt flow through GooClear.

  • What's the pricing model?

    Flat platform subscription plus a small per-MWh fee on cleared volume. Discounted tiers above 100 GWh/year.

Run a real biomethane trading desk

30 minutes with a biomethane specialist. We'll walk through last month's order book — anonymised — so you can see what the desk looks like in practice.

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