2.25 MW Rice Husk based cogeneration plant at Siddeshwari Industries Pvt Ltd

Audit Analysis

A CDM biomass cogeneration project with a confirmed investment-test additionality and a reasonable zero-leakage claim, but undermined by a significant grid emission factor discrepancy between the validation and monitoring reports, the absence of any verified ERR figure, and missing safeguards documentation (FPIC, grievance mechanism). The project is historical (crediting period ended 2016) and several key monitoring parameters were not found in the extracted record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor of 96.1 in the monitoring report is physically implausible for the Indian grid and contradicts the validation report value of 0.81 tCO₂/MWh, raising serious data-reliability concerns for the baseline
• ⚠No verified ERR figure is available in the extracted record, making it impossible to independently confirm the 30,441 tCO₂ claimed in the monitoring report
• ⚠No buffer pool, permanence mechanism, or reversal-risk assessment is documented for the project
• ⚠FPIC and grievance mechanism are not documented in any available source, despite safeguards being mentioned in the PDD
• ⚠CAR11 required serious CDM-consideration evidence per EB41 Annex 46, indicating the additionality case was initially weak

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