La Ferme - Bambous solar photovoltaic power plant

Audit Analysis

The La Ferme – Bambous solar PV project in Mauritius has a fundamentally sound integrity profile (VVB-confirmed additionality, jurisdictional grid baseline, no reversal risk), but is significantly undermined by a CDM registration that creates a genuine double-claiming risk, a large volume of monitoring and documentation errors (28 material findings, 28 corrective actions), and unresolved discrepancies between verification and monitoring reports on crediting period and safeguards. The project is not CORSIA-eligible, which limits one channel of over-crediting, but the CDM overlap and ex-ante calculation errors (months vs. days) raise meaningful over-crediting concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Project was listed on CDM Validation projects while simultaneously claiming VCS credits; the 2024 monitoring report initially stated no other GHG program registration, contradicting the CDM listing noted in the verification report's material findings
• ⚠Ex-ante emission reductions were calculated based on months instead of days (CAR 03), introducing a systematic over-crediting bias in the baseline estimate
• ⚠Crediting period discrepancy: the 2017 verification report states 2016-08-05 to 2026-08-04, while the 2024 monitoring report states 2014-02-18 to 2024-02-17 — a two-year shift that is unexplained
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the 2017 verification report records it as not conducted, while the 2024 monitoring report records it as conducted, with no explanation of when or how the gap was closed
• ⚠Meter calibration was last performed on 21/02/2022 (previous: 26/01/2018), and the verification report questioned the frequency compliance of calibration intervals

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