Bangkok Kamphaeng Saen West: Landfill Gas to Electricity Project

Audit Analysis

This CDM landfill gas-to-electricity project in Thailand has a confirmed investment additionality test and a measured project-specific baseline, but is severely undermined by 12 corrective action requests, incorrect GHG emission values, and calibration failures identified during verification. The 0% leakage deduction lacks adequate justification, no buffer pool or permanence mechanism is documented, and multiple contradictions across documents raise material concerns about the reliability of claimed reductions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠12 Corrective Action Requests and 3 Clarification Requests identified during verification, including incorrect GHG emission reduction values for the period from January 2013 onwards
• ⚠V-Cone flow meter calibration accuracy exceeded the permissible ±0.5% level specified in the registered monitoring plan
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification described as 'not addressed' in the 2018 verification report, contradicting the 2014 monitoring report's 'deemed negligible' claim
• ⚠Two different total ERR figures (437,403 vs 531,430) appear in monitoring reports from the same year, with no verified ERR figure available to reconcile
• ⚠Controlled Energy Generating License covered only 5 of the 8 commissioned engines, raising host-country compliance concerns

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