GS1247 VPA 87 Southern Ethiopia Community Boreholes

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard energy-efficiency project in Ethiopia has a confirmed additionality assessment and no reported reversals, but is undermined by ten cross-document contradictions, an extensive list of over forty corrective actions, a verification report dating to 2018, and a project name (community boreholes) that does not align with the cookstove methodology applied. Key verified figures—including lifetime ex-ante ERR, verified ERR, and buffer-pool allocation—are absent from the extracted record, leaving the credit quantity and permanence safeguards largely unquantified.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Ten contradictions across documents, including conflicting ERR figures (96,198 vs 48,465), conflicting leakage deductions (0% vs 5%), and conflicting usage rates (1.0 vs 95), indicating serious data-reliability problems.
• ⚠Over forty corrective actions remain open, covering baseline data gaps, methodology version mismatches, missing efficiency test reports, and unclear additionality for retroactive VPAs.
• ⚠The project name references community boreholes and safe water, yet the applied methodology (TPDDTEC v.4.0) is a cookstove standard; the scope and technology boundary are unclear.
• ⚠Total verified ERR and lifetime ex-ante ERR are not found in any available document, so the credit quantity cannot be independently cross-checked.
• ⚠The most recent verification report is dated March 2018, while the current crediting period runs from May 2025 to April 2030, leaving a seven-year gap in independent verification.

Credit Vintages