Installation of Household Biogas plants in Punjab - 1

Audit Analysis

A household biogas project in Punjab, India, with a verified additionality test and quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by a serious FPIC contradiction between the PDD and the 2025 verification report, an extensive list of 30+ corrective actions indicating significant MRV data-quality problems, and the absence of a stated buffer pool. Pro-rata delivery of roughly 98% of the expected emissions reductions for the elapsed monitoring period suggests no material over-crediting, yet the data-reliability issues and safeguard gaps limit confidence in the overall claim.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FPIC contradiction: the 2022 PDD states FPIC was conducted, but the 2025 verification report records it as not conducted — the more recent verification document is privileged, indicating a fundamental free, prior, and informed consent gap.
• ⚠30+ corrective actions in the 2025 verification report, including inaccurate ER calculations, incorrect monitoring period, missing sample-size justification, and a technology-description discrepancy (KVIC floating vs. Deenbandhu fixed model), signalling systemic MRV quality problems.
• ⚠FNRB method changed from national default (2022 report) to local field measurement (2025 report) without a clear documented justification for the switch.
• ⚠Baseline is project-specific and no reassessment date is recorded; while not yet overdue under Gold Standard rules, the absence of a documented reassessment schedule is a gap.

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