7.5 MW Biomass Based Power Plant

Audit Analysis

A 7.5 MW biomass power plant in India under CDM with verified additionality (investment test, Bureau Veritas) and a reasonable 0% leakage deduction for grid displacement. However, feedstock sustainability and carbon content are not documented, the baseline method shows a contradiction between project-specific and jurisdictional characterisation, and four material findings (all corrected) indicate initial quality-control gaps. The project is at the end of its crediting period with moderate data completeness.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Feedstock sustainability and carbon content testing are not stated in any available document, leaving the biomass supply chain unverified for a biomass energy project
• ⚠Baseline method is contradictory: the 2022 monitoring report describes it as project-specific while the 2013 report describes it as jurisdictional, creating uncertainty about the baseline's robustness
• ⚠Four material findings at validation (incorrect project category, wrong investment-analysis method, expired methodology version, missing DG-set monitoring) indicate initial documentation quality issues, all subsequently corrected
• ⚠Grid emission factor is from 2008 (0.8032 tCO2/MWh); no evidence of periodic update is found in the extracted record

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