Blitta – Togo Solar Power Plant

Audit Analysis

The Blitta Togo Solar Power Plant is a registered VCS renewable energy project (ACM0002 v20.0) with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. The 2023 monitoring period yielded 44,551 tCO2e, verified by SustainCERT, though the verification report flagged a 33-day meter calibration delay and a calibration error exceeding permissible limits. Multiple contradictions across documents—particularly on FPIC status, baseline method, and leakage justification—introduce moderate data-reliability concerns that temper an otherwise sound project design.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Meter calibration delay of 33 days (Oct 2022 – Nov 2023) and a calibration error of +0.297% exceeding the ±0.2% permissible limit for 0.2S-class meters, requiring application of maximum permissible error per CDM V&V Standard para 366(a).
• ⚠Seven contradictions across documents, including conflicting FPIC status (verification report: conducted; monitoring report: not conducted), conflicting baseline method (jurisdictional vs. project-specific), and conflicting leakage justification (not addressed vs. deemed negligible), all between documents dated the same day (2024-11-07).
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification described as 'not addressed' in the verification report, despite the monitoring report stating it was 'deemed negligible'—the VVB did not explicitly validate the leakage assumption.
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.573 tCO2/MWh is from 2021, while the monitoring period is 2023; no updated grid factor or reassessment is documented.

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