Our CDM projects

SN Power has successfully registered 8 projects with the CDM Executive Board. Seven of these are hydropower plants; Moinho & Barracão in Brazil, La Higuera and La Confluencia in Chile, Allain Duhangan in India, Ambuklao and Binga in the Philippines and Cheves in Peru. The eighth project is our wind farm Totoral in Chile.

CDM registrations

With its 155 MW, La Higuera was the first hydropower CDM project to breach the 100 MW threshold of CDM hydro projects when it was registered in March 2006, and the 192 MW Allain Duhangan registration set another record about a year later. Both projects started operations and production of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) in 2010. The Cheves project in Peru will start operations in 2014.

Totoral Wind Farm (46MW) was registered as a CDM project in December 2010, and is expected to produce an average of 70.000 CERs per year from 2011. Totoral has been granted a 21 (3x7) year crediting period.

In 2011, four more of our projects achieved CDM registration. Moinho & Barracão in Brazil have the combined installed capacity of 25.7 MW and will produce 15 000 CERs annually. Ambuklao and Binga hydropower plants are both located in the Philippines and the two projects will together produce an average of 180.000 CERs/year, equivalent to the CO2 produced by 80,000 automobiles. Lastly, La Confluencia in Chile, with 163 MW installed capacity, will reduce annual emissions in Chile of approximately 423 000 tonnes CO2, giving the right to the same amount of CERs. 

Validation pipeline

SN Power is actively seeking CDM registration for projects when the extra revenue from the sale of carbon credits can make the project viable. Currently our CDM validation pipeline consists of a large hydropower greenfield project in Panama and two projects in Brazil; one hydropower and one bundled wind power project.

SN Power’s eight registered CDM projects are expected to issue carbon credits amounting to more than 2 million CERs annually.