Flare Gas Recovery and Utilization of Recovered Flare Gas for process furnace and other heating applications

Audit Analysis

A CDM flare-gas recovery project in India with a verified barrier-test additionality assessment and a measured project-specific baseline. Significant contradictions between the validation report and the monitoring report on the grid emission factor (1.3 vs 0.8) and the total emission reduction figure (27,834 vs 54,193) raise data-reliability concerns, though material findings indicate the discrepancies stem from boundary and calculation corrections made after validation. The project lacks a buffer mechanism, CORSIA/CCP status is unstated, and several MRV parameters remain undocumented.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor differs by 38% between the validation report (1.3, 2009) and the monitoring report (0.8, 2011); the more recent monitoring report value is privileged but the unexplained shift undermines confidence in the baseline.
• ⚠Total ERR in the monitoring report (54,193 tCO₂e) is roughly double the validation report figure (27,834 tCO₂e); if the validation figure represents the 10-year ex-ante estimate, the first-year actual would be ~19× the pro-rata expectation, which is implausible and suggests a scope or boundary change not fully reconciled.
• ⚠No buffer pool or permanence safeguard is in place (CDM mechanism), and no reversal-risk mitigation is documented beyond the inherent avoidance nature of the project.
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are not stated in any available document, leaving dual-channel or double-claim risk unassessed.

Credit Vintages

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