8 MW OGPL Chipa power plant

Audit Analysis

The 8 MW OGPL Chipa biomass power plant in India has a solid additionality foundation (VVB-verified investment test) and a jurisdictional baseline, but the project record is severely limited by the absence of any monitoring or verified emissions data. A significant discrepancy between the PDD and validation report on total emissions reductions (a factor-of-seven gap) undermines confidence in the claimed figures, and feedstock sustainability is entirely undocumented for a biomass project.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠ERR contradiction: the PDD (Mar 2012) reports 277,719 tCO₂e while the validation report (May 2012) reports 39,674 tCO₂e — a 7× gap that, while likely reflecting annual vs. 7-year totals, was never explicitly reconciled in the documents
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verified ERR figures are available in the extracted record, making it impossible to confirm whether the project delivered on its ex-ante claims
• ⚠Feedstock sustainability, carbon content testing, and LCA are all absent from the documentation for a biomass energy project
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, with one document of unknown type, reducing reliability of the available data

Credit Vintages

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