ACP Thermal Harvesting™ Project

Audit Analysis

The ACP Thermal Harvesting Project (CDM-10373) is an energy-efficiency project in South Africa validated in December 2017, but the validation report carries 17 material findings and 7 corrective actions, including a flagged lack of clarity in the additionality demonstration. A critical ten-fold discrepancy in the claimed emission reduction figure between the PDD and the validation report, combined with a baseline-method contradiction, raises serious over-crediting concerns. No monitoring-period data, functional no-regret baseline, or usage-rate verification is available in the extracted record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Ten-fold discrepancy in total claimed emissions reductions: the PDD states 152,790 tCO₂e while the validation report states 15,279 tCO₂e — a factor-of-10 error that cannot be resolved without the original calculation sheets
• ⚠Baseline method contradicts between documents: the PDD describes a jurisdictional baseline while the validation report records a project-specific baseline, undermining confidence in the reference-case construction
• ⚠Seventeen material findings and seven corrective actions in the validation report, including a specific finding that the additionality demonstration was 'not clear/transparent' (CAR 06)
• ⚠No monitoring-period verification data, functional no-regret baseline value, or usage-rate verification is present in the available record
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable or incomplete

Credit Vintages

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