Noor 2 Abu Dhabi Street Lighting Project

Audit Analysis

The Noor 2 Abu Dhabi Street Lighting Project is a registered VCS energy-efficiency project with a verified investment-test additionality assessment and standard AMS-II.C methodology. However, the 0% buffer pool, thin leakage justification, project-specific baseline, and absence of any monitoring data to date limit confidence in the long-term integrity and verifiability of the 1.17 million-tonne lifetime claim. Several material findings during validation (ownership clarity, stakeholder consultation timing, grid emission factor deviation) were resolved but signal initial documentation gaps.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Buffer pool is 0% despite a 10-year crediting period; no financial or methodological backstop for potential reversal if efficient fixtures are replaced with less efficient ones
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with only a 'deemed negligible' justification; no quantitative analysis of potential displacement or replication effects in adjacent Abu Dhabi Municipality zones
• ⚠Investment-test parameters were classified as commercially sensitive and protected, limiting independent verification of the additionality case
• ⚠Grid emission factor (0.464 tCO2/MWh) was sourced from public data rather than calculated per CDM Tool 7, constituting a methodology deviation flagged by the VVB

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.