Info Report Check
Submission incomplete:
The DOE shall report information (data and variables) provided in the monitoring report that is different from that stated in the registered PDD or any approved revised PDD, and has caused an increase in the estimates of GHG emission reductions or net anthropogenic GHG removals in the current monitoring period (paragraph 359 of VVS for PA version 2)
The verification report states that “Especially the 2nd reason that the actual initial target of energy saving of 1.0 MWh/tSiMn was achieved compared to 0.4 MWh/tSiMn as applied to determine ex-ante emission reduction contributes to this high increase. Considering an energy saving of 1.0 MWh/tSiMn would lead to ex-ante ER of 568,889 tCO2e considering all furnace would have been retrofitted and 402,823 tCO2e considering only the actual retrofitted furnaces. Considering the latter this would be an increase of 1.77 or 177% compared to the value in PDD and hence shows that this is the actual reason for the higher actual achieved emission reductions during this crediting period. The increase in emission reduction is not due to a change in project design but due to the fact that the initial assumption on the actual energy saving was far too low.” The DOE is required to provide further information on whether this increase in the energy saving has impact on the additionality since 1) the emission reduction claimed during this monitoring period is 177% more than the estimates in PDD and this is the 4th consecutive monitoring period in which the actual emission reduction is largely more than the PDD estimates and 2) the sensitivity analysis in the PDD (p 19) includes the energy saving.