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AM0048 — New cogeneration project activities supplying electricity and heat to multiple customers

About this methodology

Projects install cogeneration plants that supply heat and electricity to several customers. The method measures emissions saved compared with supplying those services separately.

Issued by
CDM (UNFCCC) · issuer's site
Version
5.0 · source ·
Status
Active at CDM / UNFCCC · source ·
Climate outcome
Emission reductions
Activity
Industrial energy
Official page
cdm.unfccc.int ·
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How methodology v3 reads projects of this type

What CarbonMeld reads

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    Grid emission factor: the methodology sets rules for it in some cases. CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-AM0048-GRID-EF

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    Leakage: the methodology sets rules for it (AM0048 v05 para 37, p. 10). CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-AM0048-LEAKAGE

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  • A confirmed investment analysis A-INVEST

    The documents show a project-level additionality test, the validation confirmed it, and it is an investment analysis (a numeric test of the project's finances with and without carbon revenue).

Set by the methodology or the programme, not assessed by our current method

  • not assessed

    Social safeguards and consent of communities (FPIC): any such rules come from the programme, not the methodology. Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AM0048-SAFEGUARDS-FPIC

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Not applicable to this type — never a gap in our current method

The criterion does not apply to this methodology. Our current method never counts it as a gap.

The general rules apply as well. Read the general rules.

The rules of methodology v2.2, as they were: the archived v2.2 page.

History and transitions

All 6 versions

  • v05.0adopted 4 Nov 2016source

    EB92, Annex 8 Revision to include the requirements in TOOL05 and to incorporate a flowchart to help project participants navigate through fossil fuel cogeneration methodologies.

  • v04.0adopted 28 Nov 2014source

  • v03.1adopted 20 Jul 2012source

  • v03.0adopted 12 Feb 2010source

    (i) incorporate the “Tool to calculate project or leakage CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion”, and (ii) correct an error in the units of equations (22) and (23).

  • v02.0adopted 19 Oct 2007source

    Incorporate the use of the “Tool to calculate the emission factor for an electricity system”.

  • v01.0adopted 4 May 2007source

    Initial adoption.

Projects using AM0048

Browse 9 published projects using AM0048, listed alphabetically. There is no ranking for this methodology yet: it appears here automatically once 5 of its projects not in the pipeline or under validation are rated. Open a project to view its registry details and the analysis available for that project.

Which registries list projects under AM0048?

In CarbonMeld's data, AM0048 projects are on 2 registries: CDM (8) and Gold Standard (1). Being listed on a registry is not the same as being registered: the «Registered» column counts the projects each registry shows as registered, and credits are issued only after each verification.

RegistryProjectsRegisteredProjects list
CDM (UNFCCC)84See the list
Gold Standard (GS)10See the list

Counts of project records in CarbonMeld's data, with or without a CarbonMeld analysis. «Registered» counts the records whose current registry status is «registered», as last read (15 November 2026); projects in a later status, such as awaiting verification approval, late to verify or completed, are not in that column.

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