Grid Connected Biomass Based Power Plant at Merta, Dist. Nagaur, Rajasthan, India

Audit Analysis

A CDM grid-connected biomass power plant in Rajasthan with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. The project delivered roughly 61% of its ex-ante emissions-reduction estimate over the full crediting period, and several key sustainability and MRV parameters (feedstock sourcing, carbon content, FNRB) are absent from the extracted record. No material findings remain open, but the 0% leakage deduction rests solely on a 'deemed negligible' assertion without quantified support.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠ERR figures conflict between the 2011 validation report (356,016 tCO₂e) and the 2022 monitoring report (218,313 tCO₂e); the project appears to have delivered only ~61% of the ex-ante estimate over the full 7-year crediting period
• ⚠Baseline method is described as 'jurisdictional' in the 2022 monitoring report but as 'project' in the 2011 validation report, creating ambiguity about the actual baseline construction
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% on the basis of 'deemed negligible' with no quantified analysis or justification in the extracted documents
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated, and no reversal events are confirmed absent (field is null rather than explicitly zero)
• ⚠Feedstock sustainability, carbon content testing, and LCA are all absent from the extracted record for a biomass project

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.