Gold standard for the global goals Monitoring report June 2017, version 1 Page 1 of 25 Title of the project WWF Nepal Gold Standard Biogas Voluntary Emission Reduction (GS VER) Project Gold Standard project id GS 504 Version number of the monitoring report 03 Completion date of the monitoring report 11/03/2020 Date of project design certification 01/06/2009 Start date of crediting period 01/07/2014 (CP 2) Duration of this monitoring period (01/07/2014) to (30/06/2019) Duration of previous monitoring period This is first periodic verification after renewal of crediting period. Project representative(s) Biogas Sector Partnership (BSP)-Nepal Government of Nepal, Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MoEST), Alternative Energy Promotion Centre Host Country Nepal Certification pathway (activity certification/impact certification) Impact statements and products SDG 1: No Poverty SDG Contributions targeted (as per SDG3: Good health and well-being approved PDD) SDG 4: Quality education SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy ADG 8: Decent work and economic growth SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production SDG: 13: Climate action Gold Standard statement/product certification sought (GSVER/ADALYs/RECs GS VER etc.) Selected methodology(ies) Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption Version 2.0 Estimated amount of annual average certified SDG impact (as per approved PDD) 91,309 tCO2e Total amount of certified SDG impact (as per approved methodology) achieved in this 435,983 tCO2e monitoring period Page 2 of 25 SECTION A. Description of project A.1. Purpose and general description of project This is a second crediting period of the project. WWF Nepal successfully completed first crediting period with support from BSP Nepal. Under the project activity, the world wildlife fund Nepal (WWF) (now BSP- Nepal) sold carbon credits generated from 7,500 biogas digesters plants in Nepal and use renewable biogas energy to replace the heavy consumption of fuel wood in this area for cooking. Another objective of this project is to enable verified emission reductions (VERs) from the project to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by displacing conventionally used fuel sources, such as fuel wood and kerosene, for cooking. Credits from generated emission reductions are owned by BSP-Nepal. The biogas implemented in this project are the fixed dome design, called GGC 2047 model, which was designed and developed in Nepal, is the most popular. This model is considered to be reliable, well functioning, simple, durable and with low maintenance cost. The start date of the project activity is 1st January 2007, which is the date of the first biogas installed in the project activity. The biogas under this project activity are installed between 1st January 2007 to 27 June 2011. The project activity is in operation. Initially WWF Nepal Program, the project proponent, was involved in providing a partial grant to households adopting biogas plants (technology/measure) within the Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) project area and credit to purchase systems through micro-finance institutions (MFIs). WWF Nepal Program was also engage in awareness raising and capacity building of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) promoting household biogas promotion activities, manage the database, check the quality of the installed plants, ensure after sales services through pre-qualified companies and manage the guarantee fund. The baseline scenario is use of non-renewable biomass for cooking instead of biogas from the project bio digester and anaerobic decay of the animal waste due to households not having a distinctive animal waste management system. The project is transited to GS4GG. The annual estimated emission reductions over the crediting period are 91,309 tCO2e. A.2. Location of project The location of the project is Nepal. The total 7,500-biogas plants are installed in 40 Village Development committees of 10 districts. A detail of the geographic location is shown in below map. Page 3 of 25 The distribution of the biogas digesters in 10 districts are given below: Table 1: Distribution of digesters (clusterwise) SN District VDC/Cluster Number of Total Number of installations installations 1 Banke Mahadevpuri 131 131 Bagnaha 112 Dhodhari 104 Motipur 163 2 Bardiya Neulapur 116 641 Shivpur 27 Surya Patuwa 91 Thakur Dwara 28 3 Chitwan Bachhauli 187 292 Padampur 105 Chaulahi 273 Lalmatiya 401 4 Dang 1562 Sisahaniya 635 Sonpur 253 Basauti 128 Bhajani 80 Dhangadhi N.P. 484 Geta 262 Hasuliya 257 Khailad 44 5 Kailali Lalbojhi 32 2177 Masuriya 216 Phalampur 218 Pawera 147 Ramsikhar Jhala 147 Ratanpur 58 Udasinpur 121 Besi Bichawa 59 6 Kanchanpur 1355 Daijee 267 Page 4 of 25 Jhalari 230 Krishnapur 226 Pipaladi 101 Raikar Bichawa 190 Shankarpur 80 Suda 232 Padampokhari 593 7 Makwanpur 1299 Handikhola 706 8 Palpa Dobhan 11 11 9 Parsa Nirmalbasti 30 10 Rautahat Ramauli 2 2 Grand Total 7500 7500 A.3. Reference of applied methodology Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption Version 2.0 A.4. Crediting period of project This is a second crediting period and starting from 01 July 2014 for 7 years. SECTION B. Implementation of project B.1. Description of implemented project During first crediting period of the project, WWF Nepal program (Former PP), was involved in partial grant to local households adopting Biogas plants within the Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) regions and credit to purchase biogas plant systems through Micro-Finance institutions. Similarly WWF Nepal Program was involved in awareness raising and capacity building of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) promoting this systems. From this second crediting period WWF Nepal has transferred the project to BSP- Nepal. Now BSP-N is managing the project under its national biogas promotion activities, manage the database, check the quality of the installed plants, ensure after sales (in this case ongoing systems repairment) services through pre-qualified companies and manage the guarantee the fund. The biogas plants implemented under this project activity are the biogas for the thermal energy needs of households. The use of biogas digester plants will displace fossil fuel and/or non-renewable biomass (firewood). The fixed dome design, called GGC 2047 model, which was designed and developed in Nepal, is implemented in this project. This model is considered to be reliable, well-functioning, simple, durable and with low maintenance cost. The biogas plants are based on a uniform technical design and are manufactured and installed following established technical standards in Nepal. The households feed cattle dung mixed with water into the biogas plant, which through anaerobic digestion produces biogas. The biogas digester is made up of several interconnected facilities, systems and equipment. The specific role of each is summarized below: Inlet – The main purpose of the inlet is to mix organic material and water into a semi solid state. This mixture is fed into the digester via an inlet pipe. A hand operated mixer in the inlet helps mix the organic material and water thoroughly. Digester – The digester holds the mixture of manure and water while microorganism activity produces biogas. It is cylindrical in shape and is made of brick masonry with a concave concrete cover, or the dome. Page 5 of 25 Dome - The purpose of the dome is to collect the gas produced in the digester. This is plastered in several layers and painted with a special paint in order to minimize gas leakage. Gas accumulates under the dome creating pressure and pushing down the level of the slurry and increasing the slurry level in the connected slurry tank. It is the difference in slurry levels between the slurry tank and the inside of the dome that maintains the pressure to push the gas into the outlet pipe and into the kitchen. Outlet - The outlet valve releases the collected gas under the dome to burners for cooking and gas lamps for lighting purposes. Gas is conveyed to the kitchen in galvanized iron (GI) pipes. Water Drain – The water drain is put in at the lowest point of the GI pipe conveying gas to the kitchen. Its purpose is to release any condensed water from the pipeline. It needs to be opened and cleaned out periodically to make sure all the water in it is released. Slurry Tank: The slurry tank holds the slurry that the gas pressure from under the dome displaces. This slurry overflows into a composting tank as more manure is fed into the digester. The slurry can either be used directly as a fertilizer in its liquid form or can be turned into a more solid fertilizer after it has been composted with other organic material. The schematic diagram of the biogas plant is given below: Under the project activity now BSP is selling carbon credits generated from these Biogas digesters plants in Nepal (project boundary), and use renewable biogas energy to replace the heavy consumption of fuel wood in this area for cooking. Similarly, it enables verified emission reductions (VERs) from the project to Page 6 of 25 reduce Green house gas emissions by displacing conventionally used fuel sources. Credits generated from these systems are owned by BSP-Nepal. The total estimated emission reductions claimed for this verification are 435,983 tCO2e. The year-wise (strata) installation of the biogas digesters are given below: Table 2: Installation of Biogas plants under the project activity (year-wise) Batch Number (Strata) Project date Number of plants From To 1 01.01.2007 31.12.2007 1676 2 01.01.2008 31.12.2008 1089 3 01.01.2009 31.12.2009 1448 4 01.01.2010 31.12.2010 1777 5 01.01.2011 30.06.2011 1510 Total 7500 B.2. Post-registration changes B.2.1. Temporary deviations from Certified Key Project Information, Project Design Document, Monitoring & Reporting Plan, applied methodology or applied standardized baseline N/A B.2.2.