National Bachu Biomass Power Generation Project

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard biomass power generation project in China using the AMS-I.D. methodology with a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. The project delivered 122% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the first monitoring period, indicating conservative crediting, but multiple data-quality issues (downtime, fuel consumption, NCV inconsistencies) required corrective actions during verification. Key gaps include unaddressed permanence/reversal considerations, a contradictory leakage justification, and missing fnrb and usage-rate data.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the verification report (Oct 2020) states leakage was 'quantified' while the monitoring report (Nov 2020) describes it as 'deemed negligible', yet the deduction is 0% in both cases
• ⚠Multiple Corrective Action Requests across verification cycles revealed inconsistencies in downtime records, fossil fuel consumption values, NCV of cotton stalks, and grid electricity import figures — all closed but indicating fragile monitoring data quality
• ⚠Permanence and reversal risk are marked as 'not addressed' in the extracted record, and no buffer pool percentage is stated
• ⚠Baseline method is contradictory: the PDD (2018) describes a 'jurisdictional' baseline while the verification report (2020) labels it 'project'

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