Univanich Lamthap POME Biogas Project PreCDMVER

Audit Analysis

The Univanich Lamthap POME Biogas Project is a Gold Standard biogas-to-electricity project in Thailand with a combined additionality test and measured project-specific baseline. However, the verification report identifies multiple data-quality corrective actions (meter malfunctions, missing calibration, incomplete COD analysis), and the leakage treatment is contradictory between documents with the higher-priority verification report indicating it was not addressed. The project delivered roughly 77% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the monitoring period, which is conservative, but the overall data reliability and baseline robustness limit confidence in the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage treatment is contradictory: the verification report (Nov 2011) states leakage was 'not addressed' while the monitoring report (Jun 2011) claims it was 'deemed negligible'; the verification report is privileged as the higher-priority document, leaving leakage effectively unquantified.
• ⚠Nine material findings / corrective actions in the verification report, including a flow-rate meter malfunction lasting five months, a methane analyser failure, missing COD lab analysis for the first months of the monitoring period, and electricity meters lacking initial calibration certificates.
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.5098 tCO2/MWh is from 2005, predating the 2008–2009 monitoring period by three years, raising the risk of an outdated baseline reference.

Credit Vintages Exhausted