Solar Light for Rural Kenya

Audit Analysis

Solar Light for Rural Kenya is a VCS-registered renewable energy project with VVB-confirmed additionality, but it carries nine material findings and nine required corrective actions from the verification report. The project boundary file (KML) contains coordinates in the Mediterranean region rather than Kenya, and the grid emission factor of 2.72 appears inconsistent with Kenya's clean grid mix, raising baseline validity concerns. The project delivered roughly 40% of its pro-rata PDD expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, indicating the ex-ante estimate was likely optimistic.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Project boundary KML file contains coordinates in the Mediterranean (approx. 35.6°N, 1.15°W) rather than Kenya (~0–5°N, 34–42°E), indicating a fundamentally wrong or misfiled boundary
• ⚠Nine material findings and nine corrective actions required in the verification report, including incomplete additionality details, unclear baseline survey methodology, and missing QA/QC procedures
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 2.72 is inconsistent with Kenya's predominantly geothermal/hydro grid (typically 0.2–0.4 tCO₂/MWh), raising questions about baseline validity
• ⚠Methodology listed as AMS-I.L (Improved Cookstoves) is inconsistent with a solar light project, suggesting a possible data or classification error
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage or reversal event data found in any available document

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.