Energy Efficiency through Alteration of fuel oil atomizing media in coal-fired thermal power plant

Audit Analysis

A CDM energy-efficiency project in an Indian coal-fired power plant with a VVB-confirmed barrier additionality test and a reasonable 0% leakage deduction, but weakened by a project-specific baseline, four corrective actions on the monitoring plan, and several key MRV parameters (FNRB, usage monitoring method, verified ERR) that are absent from the extracted record. The project delivered roughly 97% of its pro-rata expected emissions reductions for the monitored period, indicating no material over-crediting.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Four corrective actions were required in the monitoring report (2011), including wrong table references for baseline parameters, insufficient steam-flow monitoring frequency, and a non-conservative station heat rate calculation — indicating the initial monitoring plan had material gaps.
• ⚠The additionality test type appears as 'combined' in the 2007 validation report and 'barrier' in the 2012 validation report, suggesting the additionality case was simplified over time; the barrier test is the weakest of the three CDM tests.
• ⚠No buffer pool or permanence mechanism is documented, and no reversal events are reported, leaving the permanence of the energy-efficiency gains unquantified.
• ⚠The verified ERR figure for the monitoring period is not present in the extracted record, preventing a direct cross-check against the PDD's lifetime estimate.

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