Biomass based Process Steam Generation Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM biomass steam-generation project in India with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test, but hampered by five material findings at validation, a ten-fold discrepancy in claimed emissions reductions between the PDD and the validation report, and a near-total absence of monitoring or verification data. The project's inherent permanence risk is low (energy substitution, not carbon storage), yet the data gaps and contradictions significantly undermine confidence in the credit quantity.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Ten-fold discrepancy in total claimed emissions reductions: the PDD (Apr 2011) states 210,190 tCO₂e while the validation report (May 2011) states 21,019 tCO₂e — a 10× difference that cannot be resolved from available documents
• ⚠Five material findings (CAR-1 through CAR-5) at validation, including unsupported elimination of a baseline alternative, missing sensitivity analysis, and an incomplete monitoring plan
• ⚠No monitoring-period data, no verified ERR, and no feedstock-sustainability or carbon-content information found in any extracted document
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.