15 MW Biomass Residue Based Power Project At Ghazipur, India

Audit Analysis

A 15 MW biomass power project in India with a VVB-verified investment additionality test and jurisdictional baseline, but undermined by 16 corrective actions, a 0% leakage deduction with thin justification, and multiple inter-document contradictions. The project is not CORSIA-eligible and has no material findings, but data quality concerns and missing monitoring parameters (FNRB, usage rates) limit confidence in the claimed reductions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠16 corrective actions required in the 2022 verification report, including discrepancies in rice husk procurement data, missing calibration certificates, and unexplained changes in energy meters — indicating significant MRV data quality issues
• ⚠0% leakage deduction justified only as 'quantified' without a visible quantitative breakdown; for a biomass residue power project, displacement of alternative fuel uses is a plausible leakage pathway
• ⚠Grid emission factor fixed at 0.8 tCO2/MWh from 2008 with no evidence of periodic updating across the 10-year crediting period
• ⚠FPIC not conducted and benefit sharing not described in the verification report, raising Indigenous and local community engagement concerns
• ⚠Nine contradictions across documents, including a 5.5× discrepancy in verified ERR between two verification reports (73,654 vs 403,634 tCO2e)

Credit Vintages Exhausted