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AM0058 — Introduction of a district heating system

About this methodology

Projects replace separate heating boilers with a district network supplied by central boilers or heat from a power plant. The method measures the resulting reduction in fuel-related emissions.

Issued by
CDM (UNFCCC) · issuer's site
Version
5.0 · source ·
Status
Active at CDM / UNFCCC · source ·
Climate outcome
Emission reductions
Activity
District heating
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. CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-AM0058-GRID-EF

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    Leakage: the methodology sets rules for it (AM0058 v05 §5.5, p. 13). CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-AM0058-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-AM0058-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 22 Jul 2016source

    Include the requirements of TOOL05 and TOOL08.

  • v04.0adopted 27 Nov 2015source

    Expand the applicability, removing obsolete criteria; Allow additionality demonstration for the project participants rather than end users; Simplify baseline emissions calculation; Change document title from “Introduction of a new primary …

  • v03.1adopted 30 Jul 2010source

    Editorial revision to clarify the meaning of lifetime of the project activity.

  • v03.0adopted 28 May 2009source

    Address the issue related to potential leakage emissions when the electricity fed to the grid by the power plant supplying the heat to the project, is significantly lower under the project than under the baseline; and Include editorial …

  • v02.0adopted 26 Sept 2008source

    The methodology was revised to expand its applicability to backpressure plants.

  • v01.0adopted 19 Oct 2007source

    Initial adoption.

Projects using AM0058

Browse 18 published projects using AM0058, 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 AM0058?

In CarbonMeld's data, AM0058 projects are on 2 registries: CDM (17) 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)1710See the list
Gold Standard (GS)11See 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.

One of these projects has no number: additionality, quantification or both have no public grade of its type of project that applies to it yet. Its page shows the analysis.

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