HomeBiogas Programme in Kenya

Audit Analysis

The HomeBiogas Programme in Kenya is a Gold Standard-certified biogas avoidance project with VVB-confirmed additionality and measured baselines, but is undermined by a serious material finding alleging the programme name was copied from an existing ABPL carbon activity, four corrective action requests, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justification across reports, and a verified credit delivery of only ~7% of the pro-rata annual expectation. The project's conservative usage-rate assumptions and local-field FNRB are positive, but the volume of data contradictions and unresolved double-claiming concerns limit confidence in the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Material finding alleges the programme name is a direct copy of an ABPL programme whose carbon activities are still ongoing, raising a serious double-counting / intellectual-property concern
• ⚠Four corrective action requests (CAR 01–04) were raised in the verification report, indicating unresolved compliance gaps at the time of verification
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with justification described as 'quantified' in the 2025 verification report but 'not addressed' in the 2024 verification report, creating uncertainty about whether leakage was ever properly assessed
• ⚠Verified ERR of 21,251 tCO₂e represents only ~7% of the pro-rata annual expectation (~301,226 tCO₂e) derived from the lifetime ex-ante estimate of 1,506,129 tCO₂e over a 5-year crediting period, suggesting the ex-ante estimate may have been substantially overstated

Credit Vintages