Info Report Check
Submission incomplete:

For this monitoring period, the CM emission factor used for ER calculation was 0.3222 tCO2/MWh. However, it is not clear whether all the requirements of the tool to calculate the emission factor for an electricity system (version 4) are fully met. For example,

• The MR and the excel calculation file provide only a number of OM emission factor (0.3800 tCO2/MWh) without providing full details for OM calculation (See Cell C2 of the sheet “EF Analysis”);
• Three excel calculation files were mentioned in Verification Report (page 4) i.e. “10236 Sogamoso 2019-2020_CER_BM_January 25 2022.xlsx”, “10236 Sogamoso 2019-2020_OM Dispatch_May 28 2021.xlsx” and “10236 Sogamoso 2019-2020_OM Summary_May 28 2021.xlsm”. However, only the 1st excel file has been provided to the secretariat.
• In the excel calculation sheet (“BM”), CO2 emissions from bagasse plants, which could be considered renewable, are also included;
• In the excel calculation sheet (“Plants EF”), 4.6 is used as a CONSTANT value besides 3.6 (see Column H);
• In the excel calculation sheet (“Plants EF”), a very high CO2 emission factor is used for some plants (for example, see Cell H37 to H40 for gas-based power units, Cell H41 for a coal-based unit). The DOE is requested to substantiate the reason for such high CO2 emission factors;


Therefore, the DOE is requested to provide all the excel calculation files to the secretariat and also to substantiate how it has verified the compliance of the emission factor calculation with all the requirements of the applied tool to calculate the emission factor for an electricity system (version 4) as per paragraph 373 (C) of VVS for PA version 3.

Also, as minor issues, different CM values (0.3222 tCO2/MWh against 0.3277 tCO2/MWh, which was used in the final ER calculation) are reported in several places of Monitoring Report (page 18) and Verification Report (page 13). Also, the DOE referred to version 7 of the tool (see page 4 of Verification Report), while version 4 was used. These should be corrected.