Biomass based power generation project in Maharashtra, India

Audit Analysis

A CDM biomass power-generation project in Maharashtra with VVB-confirmed additionality and a reasonable leakage justification, but undermined by a baseline-method contradiction across monitoring reports, a grid emission factor frozen at a 2008 value, and verified emissions reductions that cover only about one-third of the pro-rata expectation for the elapsed crediting period. Feedstock sustainability and carbon-content data are absent from the extracted record, and a corrective action was required to add missing specific-fuel-consumption data to the PDD.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified ERR of 44,626 for the 2018–2020 monitoring period is only ~33% of the pro-rata expectation (~136,857) derived from the PDD's lifetime claim of 497,660 over the 10-year crediting period, indicating significant under-delivery.
• ⚠Baseline method is described as 'project' in the 2021 monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the 2012 monitoring report — an unresolved inconsistency that undermines confidence in the baseline calculation.
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.805 tCO₂/MWh is anchored to 2008 data; no updated or sensitivity analysis is found in the extracted documents.
• ⚠Feedstock sustainability and carbon-content testing are not stated in any available document, leaving the renewable-biomass claim for bamboo dust and D-cake unverified.
• ⚠A corrective action was required to update the PDD with specific fuel consumption values for bamboo dust and D-cake, indicating the original project design document was incomplete.

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