Advanced Refrigeration CAN - ARS 004C

Audit Analysis

This ACR-registered advanced refrigeration project (ARS 004C, Missouri/US) has VVB-confirmed additionality via a combined test, but the verification report identified eight material findings—including incorrect baseline charge sizes, misclassified equipment, and monitoring-plan deficiencies—each requiring corrective action. The 0% leakage deduction lacks a consistent justification across documents, and the ex-ante lifetime estimate (480) sits at a very different magnitude from the verified 2019 figure (480,748), raising questions about unit consistency or baseline robustness. Overall, the project is structurally sound but carries meaningful data-quality and baseline-accuracy concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eight material findings in the May 2021 verification report, including incorrect baseline default charge sizes and incorrect equipment classification in the ACR599 dataset, directly undermine baseline accuracy
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% is justified as 'deemed negligible' in the PDD but listed as 'not addressed' in the validation report—an inconsistency that weakens the leakage treatment
• ⚠The ex-ante lifetime estimate of 480 (validation report, Dec 2020) and the verified 2019 figure of 480,748 (verification report, May 2021) differ by three orders of magnitude; if both are in the same unit, the project delivered roughly 10,000% of the pro-rata expectation, which is implausible and suggests a unit or scope error
• ⚠Usage monitoring method is listed as 'assumed' with a usage rate of 7.75 that was never independently verified, reducing confidence in the activity-level data

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