Understanding CDM Methodologies - SuSanA
Understanding CDM Methodologies - SuSanA
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Box 20: Sufficient natural gas supply in the future<br />
Gas Supply has<br />
to be sufficient<br />
throughout the<br />
Crediting Period<br />
A project attempted to deviate from the AM0029 applicability condition on<br />
natural gas availability because the project did not meet the condition due to the<br />
delay in production of gas blocks within the region 248 .The project power plant<br />
started its commercial operation in 2002. Although the project was in natural<br />
gas supply deficit and consequently operating at a lower load factor at the time<br />
of request for deviation in 2007, it argued that the upcoming gas blocks would<br />
lead to sufficient gas availability in the region by 2008 (confirmed by the DOE).<br />
The EB decided not to accept the request because the project did not meet the<br />
applicability condition at the time of validation – natural gas shall be sufficiently<br />
available during the entire crediting period(s).<br />
Project Boundary<br />
Grid defines<br />
Project Boundary<br />
Only CO 2<br />
emissions taken<br />
into Account<br />
All Power Plant<br />
Technologies<br />
built or under<br />
Construction are<br />
Baseline Scenario<br />
Candidates<br />
The spatial extent of the project boundary includes the project site and<br />
all power plants connected physically to the baseline grid as defined in<br />
ACM0002.<br />
In calculation of project emissions, only CO 2<br />
emissions from fossil fuel<br />
combustion at the project plant are considered. In calculation of baseline<br />
emissions, only CO 2<br />
emissions from fossil fuel combustion in power plant(s)<br />
in the baseline are considered.<br />
Baseline Scenario and Additionality<br />
The most plausible baseline scenario shall be selected based on the following<br />
two-step analysis: (i) identification of alternative baseline scenarios, and<br />
(ii) identification of the economically most attractive baseline scenario<br />
alternative.<br />
The identification of alternative baseline scenarios should include all possible<br />
realistic and credible alternatives that provide outputs or services comparable<br />
with the proposed <strong>CDM</strong> project, i.e., all types of power plants that could be<br />
constructed as alternative to the project within the grid boundary (as defined<br />
in ACM0002), such as different technologies using natural gas, power plants<br />
using other fuels or power import from connected grids, including the<br />
possibility of new interconnections. The alternatives need not consist solely of<br />
power plants of the same capacity, load factor and operational characteristics<br />
but should deliver similar types of services (e.g. peak vs. baseload power). All<br />
relevant power plant technologies that have recently been constructed, or are<br />
under construction, or are being planned have to be covered, including those<br />
available to other stakeholders within the grid boundary. Alternatives that are<br />
not in compliance with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements can<br />
be excluded.<br />
248<br />
See ‘Deviation for not meeting one of the applicability clauses of methodology “Natural gas is sufficiently<br />
available in the region and country”’, available at: http://cdm.unfccc.int/UserManagement/FileStorage/<br />
T8IHJUQB1L2IPOPY8FPGBUV34Y1XVV.<br />
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