Bandar Baru Serting Biomass Project

Audit Analysis

The Bandar Baru Serting Biomass Project is a CDM-registered biomass energy substitution project in Malaysia with VVB-confirmed additionality, but the available record is limited to validation-stage documents from 2007 with no monitoring or verification reports. Twelve corrective actions and five material findings were raised at validation, and key sustainability and MRV parameters (feedstock sourcing, FNRB, usage monitoring) remain unaddressed in the extracted record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Twelve corrective actions were required at validation, including recalculation of the grid emission factor, revision of project boundaries, and establishment of monitoring procedures — indicating the project design was not fully robust at approval.
• ⚠Feedstock sustainability, carbon content testing, and life-cycle assessment are all absent from the available documents, leaving the biomass supply chain unverified.
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verification reports are present in the record; the project's actual performance over its 2007–2014 crediting period cannot be assessed.
• ⚠The grid emission factor (0.637 tCO₂/MWh) is from 2006 and its initial calculation was flagged as needing correction to use authentic public data rather than another CDM project's figure.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.