Advanced Refrigeration - ARS2025006

Audit Analysis

This ACR-registered advanced refrigeration project has VVB-confirmed additionality but is undermined by significant scope confusion (US states listed as location while corrective actions reference Mexico), a single-day monitoring period for a 10-year crediting period, and multiple material findings requiring scope and data revisions. The identical ERR figures across claimed, verified, and ex-ante lifetime measures, combined with the absence of FNRB and usage-monitoring details, limit confidence in the credit quantity.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Project location is contradictory: the registry lists eight US states, yet the monitoring report's corrective actions direct removal of US regulatory references and addition of Mexico net-zero objectives, suggesting the actual project site may be in Mexico
• ⚠Monitoring period spans a single day (2025-12-03 to 2025-12-03) while the crediting period is ten years, and the verified ERR (39,047) equals the full lifetime ex-ante estimate, making it unclear what was actually monitored
• ⚠Multiple material findings required exclusion of the Gala Foods – Centereach, NY location and revision of the Giant Eagle location scope, indicating the project boundary was not stable at the time of verification
• ⚠Leakage is deemed negligible without any quantified deduction or detailed justification in the monitoring report

Credit Vintages