Clean Cooking - Cook Stove for Rural India

Audit Analysis

This VCS cookstove project in rural Uttar Pradesh has a VVB-confirmed additionality test and verified 100% usage rate, but is undermined by a regression in leakage treatment (from quantified to unaddressed), nine material findings, eighteen corrective actions, and ten cross-document contradictions affecting key parameters. The project delivered only ~15% of the pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, suggesting overly optimistic baseline assumptions rather than over-crediting, but the data reliability issues limit confidence in the credit calculations.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage treatment regressed from 'quantified' (2023 verification report) to 'not addressed' (2024 verification report), with no leakage deduction percentage stated in the current record
• ⚠Ten contradictions across documents, including a 17× discrepancy in verified ERR (148,546 vs 2,563,286 from an unknown source) and conflicting crediting periods (2022–2029 vs 2021–2028)
• ⚠Nineteen corrective actions and nine material findings remain open, covering baseline survey gaps, fNRB calculation clarity, thermal efficiency justification, and weighing-scale calibration
• ⚠Buffer pool percentage and reversal-event treatment are not stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified

Credit Vintages