Fes New Landfill Gas Recovery Reuse and Flaring Project

Audit Analysis

This CDM landfill gas project in Morocco has a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a reasonable leakage treatment, but is undermined by a 78% discrepancy in the grid emission factor across documents, a missing buffer pool, a project-specific modeled baseline, and 21 unresolved CARs/CLs during verification. The verified ERR figure is absent from the extracted record, and the crediting period differs between the PDD and the monitoring report, raising data-reliability concerns that temper confidence in the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor differs by 78% between the PDD (0.4 tCO₂e/MWh, 2020) and the appendix (0.7138 tCO₂e/MWh, 2014), directly affecting the electricity-generation credit calculation
• ⚠Crediting period is 2015-03-12 to 2025-03-11 in the monitoring report but 2013-10-01 to 2023-09-30 in the PDD — a two-year shift in both start and end dates
• ⚠11 Corrective Action Requests and 10 Clarification Requests were raised during verification, including a reduction of installed capacity from 3 MW to 1 MW due to low biogas availability
• ⚠Total verified ERR is not stated in the extracted record, preventing independent confirmation of actual credit delivery

Credit Vintages