Biogas based power generation project at Jeongeup-si

Audit Analysis

A CDM biogas power-generation project in South Korea with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a jurisdictional grid baseline, but hampered by four corrective action requests (plant load factor, baseline emission factor, start date, monitoring plan) and a contradiction in baseline method between the validation and monitoring reports. The project is an avoidance-type activity with low permanence risk and a reasonable 0% leakage deduction, yet several key MRV parameters (FNRB, usage rate) are absent from the extracted record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method is reported as 'jurisdictional' in the monitoring report (2014) but 'project-specific' in the validation report (2014-05-30); the more robust jurisdictional reading is privileged, but the inconsistency undermines confidence in the baseline.
• ⚠Four corrective action requests (CARs) were raised by the VVB covering plant load factor substantiation, baseline emission factor calculation, project start-date definition, and the monitoring plan for imported electricity — all resolved before issuance but indicating initial methodological gaps.
• ⚠FNRB value and method are not stated in any available document, leaving the netting of avoided emissions to other sinks unquantified in the extracted record.

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