Info Report Check
Submission incomplete:
Scope: The verification and certification report does not list each parameter required by the monitoring plan and does not provide an statement on how the DOE verified the information flow for these parameters including the values in the monitoring reports as per VVS version 09.0 paragraphs 393 and 409 (e).
Issue:
With regard to the ex-post grid emission factor EFCO2,y (0.5229 tCO2e/MWh), it is observed that:
(1) The applied methodological tool “Tool to calculate the emission factor for an electricity system” version 02.2.0 requires annual update of ex-poste simple OM and BM emission factor (step 3 and step 5), whereas such requirement is not evidenced in the submitted documents since only one grid EF is (calculated, based on data in year 2014) is applied for this monitoring period (30/01/14 – 31/01/16, covering two years).
(2) The grid EF tool above requires that same data vintage should be used to determine the emission factor throughout all crediting periods, however, inconsistent application of data vintages is observed in annual grid emission factors (i.e. in the first monitoring period (30/01/13 – 29/01/14), grid data of year 2013 is applied to determine the grid emission factor of year 2013; whereas in this monitoring period (30/01/14 – 31/01/16), grid data of year 2014 is applied to determine the grid emission factor of year 2015). Please address this inconsistency.
(3) For the average net energy conversion efficiency of power unit m in year y (i.e. parameter ηm,y) applied to determine OM and BM, the grid EF tool (i.e. section III, parameter table of ηm,y and ηk,y) requires that the data source shall be either of (a) documented manufacturer’s specifications; (b) data from the utility, the dispatch center or official records; or (c) default values provided. However, the DOE did not provide information on how it has verified the compliance of the data sources with the requirement.