Ramanagara Biogas Project
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Host party(ies) India
Methodology(ies) AMS-I.C. ver. 19
AMS-III.R. ver. 2
AMS-I.E. ver. 4
Standardised Baselines N/A
Estimated annual reductions* 46,564
Start date of first crediting period. 01 Jul 12
Length of first crediting period. 10 years
DOE/AE TÜV NORD CERT GmbH
Period for comments 05 Aug 11 - 03 Sep 11
PP(s) for which DOE have a contractual obligation SKG Sangha
The operational/applicant entity working on this project has decided to make the Project Design Document (PDD) publicly available directly on the UNFCCC CDM website.
PDD PDD (1473 KB)
Local stakeholder consultation report: N/A
Impact assessment summary: N/A
Submission of comments to the DOE/AE Compilation of submitted inputs:
This project throws a new light on the biomass power projects, which the DOEs have been webhosting, validating and getting registered. PDD states, “The demand for fuel wood is much higher than the regeneration of the woody biomass so there is a severe shortage of fuel wood and forest resources are depleting. 78% of the collected fuel wood is non-renewable” (p.18). This biomass, not only in Karnataka, but in other States also is used for power generation which claim that they are renewable. If this statement given in the project is true, then biomass based power projects based on such fuel should not be registered.

PDD states that the rural households use 19.88 litres per year for cooking purposes (p.18). This does not seem to be supported by National Sample Survey report. As per NSS, per capita consumption of kerosene in rural areas of Karnataka is 0.597 litres. The household is defined as 4 persons. Therefore kerosene consumption per household per annum will be 28.65 litres. If 19.88 litres is used for cooking, what is left for lighting is only 8.77 litres. PDD also states that the families get 3 litres per month at subsidised rate of which 1.5 litres is used for lighting purposes. Consumption of kerosene considered, therefore, cannot be correct. The sample, sampling methodology adopted and the standard error of the sample should be checked.   
Submitted by: Karthikeyan


The comment period is over.
* Emission reductions in metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent per annum that are based on the estimates provided by the project participants in unvalidated PDDs