Methane Recovery Project Praktijkcentrum Sterksel, North Brabant, The Netherlands

Audit Analysis

A VCS-registered biogas methane-recovery project in the Netherlands with a confirmed investment-test additionality and a conservativity factor of 0.5, but undermined by a project-specific baseline, absence of a buffer pool, and multiple data-quality non-conformities (non-functional flow meter, literature-based methane content). The project appears to under-credit relative to its PDD estimates, reducing over-crediting risk, yet the volume of corrective actions and medium extraction confidence limit confidence in the overall record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Biogas flow meter was not running during the monitoring period; production was back-calculated from electricity output and methane content was taken from literature values rather than measured (verification report, 2021).
• ⚠Fourteen corrective actions were required in the 2021 verification report, including misaligned manure values, incorrect operation hours, and missing leakage emission entries for 2010 onwards.
• ⚠Manure quantities from the own farm were estimated from animal numbers rather than measured, and the verification report required the proponent to justify this estimation method.

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