Electrify America - EV Charging Network Carbon Credits

Audit Analysis

Electrify America's EV charging project has a VVB-confirmed additionality assessment and a reasonable 0% leakage deduction, but suffers from a project-specific baseline, no stated buffer pool, and a significant gap between the PDD's lifetime estimate (95,455 tCO₂e) and the verified 2-year figure (2,396 tCO₂e), representing only ~12.5% of the pro-rata expectation. Five minor material findings were identified and corrective actions required, but none are substantive. Overall a mid-tier project with solid verification but notable data gaps.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠PDD lifetime estimate of 95,455 tCO₂e implies ~19,091 tCO₂e for the 2-year monitoring period, yet only 4,277 tCO₂e was claimed and 2,396 tCO₂e verified — a 77.6% shortfall against pro-rata expectation, suggesting the PDD assumptions were significantly over-optimistic
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified despite the project relying on continued operation of charging infrastructure
• ⚠Grid emission factor is not stated in any extracted document, which is a critical input for a grid-based avoidance project
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are both unstated, leaving dual-channel risk unassessed

Credit Vintages Exhausted