Complexo Carreiro II CDM Project

Description

Carreiro River, state of Rio Grande do Sul, South region of Brazil.

Complexo Carreiro II CDM Project

Complexo Carreiro II CDM Project (Project 6041) was registered by CDM Executive Board on 22 October 2012. This PDD is being submitted to request the renewal of the crediting period for its second crediting period. Complexo Carreiro II CDM Project (Project 6041) consists on the supply of clean hydroelectric energy to the Brazilian National Interconnected System (SIN) through the implantation and operation of three Small Hydro Power Plants (SHPs) Boa Fé, São Paulo and Autódromo with small reservoir area and installed capacity of 24,000,300 W, 16,048,800 W and 24,005,700 W, respectively. SHPs are located on the margins of Carreiro River, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Region of Brazil. According to the large-scale consolidated methodology ACM0002, the baseline scenario is that electricity delivered to the grid by the project activity would have otherwise been generated by the operation of grid-connected power plants and by the addition of new generation sources, as reflected in the Combined Margin (CM) emission factor calculations described in “TOOL07: Tool to calculate the emission factor for an electricity system”. The baseline scenario is the same scenario that existed before the beginning of the project activity implementation and the CO2 emission factor for the displacement of electricity generated by power plants in an electricity system, by calculating the “combined margin” emission factor (CM) of the electricity system, is the greenhouse gas to be considered in the project activity. During the second crediting period, the project activity is expected to reduce 59,754 tCO2e annually and 418,281 tCO2e during the whole new crediting period of 7 years.

Information