*Salido Kecil Mini Hydropower Plant

Audit Analysis

The Salido Kecil Mini Hydropower Plant is a Gold Standard grid-connected renewable project with VVB-confirmed additionality and documented safeguards, but it carries moderate integrity and claim-safety risks stemming from a project-specific baseline, a grid emission factor anchored to 2005, a 0% leakage deduction whose justification appears only in later monitoring reports, and significant year-to-year variability in verified emissions reductions (6,005 tCO₂e in 2022 vs 2,629 tCO₂e in 2024) linked to recurring operational outages.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor is anchored to 2005 data (0.679 tCO₂/MWh); if Indonesia's grid has decarbonised since then, the project may be over-crediting its displacement benefit.
• ⚠Verified emissions reductions dropped from 6,005 tCO₂e (2022 monitoring report) to 2,629 tCO₂e (2024 monitoring report), a ~56% decline, driven by repeated turbine outages, controller failures, and PLN-requested shutdowns.
• ⚠The PDD (2020) did not address leakage; the 'deemed negligible' justification appears only in the 2024 monitoring report, creating a documentation gap in the project design.
• ⚠Material findings include an improperly located grievance book, an outdated office address in the PDD, and missing calibration evidence for monitoring equipment, yet no corrective actions were formally required.

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