The document provides guidelines for selecting and applying simplified gold standard methodologies for efficient cookstove projects in Colombia. It outlines the target population profile for rural Colombia, summaries two applicable methodologies, and provides details on key elements like applicability criteria, estimating emission reductions, and monitoring requirements like user surveys. The document aims to help project developers select and implement the appropriate methodology for efficient cookstove projects in Colombia.

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Metodologías Gold Standard para proyectos
de estufas eficientes
27 March, 2014

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Contents
• Target Population Profile - Colombia
• Summary of the Methodologies
• How to Select the Methodology?
• Simplified Methodology for Efficient Cookstove
– Key Applicability Criteria
– Measuring of Emission reduction
– Monitoring requirements
– Guidelines/Survey Template(s)
– Example Case Study

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Colombia Target Population Profile
• Target Population Profile (Rural)
• Target 2.9 Million (25% of Colombia Population) around 14% households
Access to Natural Gas Andean region (hhs) Other regions (hhs)
Disconnected 412,000 (4% population) 225,000 (2% Population)
Connected 1,800,000 (15% population) 458,000 (4% Population)
• Fuel and Baseline Cooking Device
Disconnected Device: 3- brick fire variations
Fuel: Firewood
Device: 3- brick fire variations
Fuel: Firewood
Connected Device: 3 brick fire variations,
LPG stove, some Lorena,
electric stoves
Fuel: Firewood, LPG sometime
electricity

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GS Methodologies
• Gold Standard Methodologies Applicable to
Cookstove Activities
- Simplified Methodology for Efficient Cookstove
(mCookstove Methodology)
- Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized
Thermal Energy Consumption (TPDDTEC)
- Thermal Energy from Plant Oil for the User of Cookstove

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GS Methodologies
mCookstove Methodology TPDDTEC
Project Type Thermal Energy Consumption for
- Domestic Premises i.e.,
Household Cooking
Thermal energy consumption for
- Domestic premises such as Residential,
Institutional, Schools, Hospitals, Hostels
- and /or
- Non-domestic premises such as
Industrial or Commercial facilities
Technology
(ies)
- Improved firewood Cookstove
- Fuel Switching from non-
renewable to renewable fuel
- Improved biomass or fossil fuel
cookstoves, solar cookers, bio-digesters
- Ovens, Dryers, Space and Water Heaters
(solar and otherwise), Heat retention
cookers,
- Safe Water Supply and Treatment
Technologies that displace Water Boiling,
- Thermal insulation in Cold Climates, etc.

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- Baseline and project technology
- Project Scale
- Applicability conditions
- Monitoring requirements
- Carbon project development cost
Selection of Methodology
mCookstove Methodology TPDDTEC methodology
Project Scale Micro-scale (Less than 10000 ERs
per annum)
Micro-scale ERs (< 10000
Small Scale (180 GWh)
Large Scale ( No Limit)

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Simplified Efficient Cookstove Methodology
– Dispersed and remotely located end users
– Main baseline fuel - Firewood
– Baseline technology - Three Stone fire or other traditional
device
– Project Transaction cost
– Monitoring requirements and alternatives
– Options to choose between actual monitoring and default
factors applicable to all activities
– Simplified requirements with guidelines

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Key Elements – Applicability Criteria
Criteria Details Colombia (Yes/No)
Baseline Fuel Fire-wood (Only) Yes
Baseline stove Three stone fire, or a conventional device without
a grate or a chimney
Yes
Project stove A single pot or multi pot portable or an in-situ
cookstove with a specified efficiency of at least
20%.
Project Stove
Selection
No Double
Counting
The cookstoves counted in the proposed project
activity are not included in any other voluntary
market or CDM project activity.
Project level
Assessment
Ownership rights
to sell the
emission
reductions Units
This must be communicated to the cookstoves
producers, retailers and end users by contract or
clear written documents.
Project level measure
Parallel use of
baseline Stove
It should be discouraged by providing incentives
like discounted price for the improved Cookstove
Project level measure

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Key elements – Applicability Criteria
Criteria Details Colombia (Yes/No)
Project Boundary Physical, geographical site of the baseline, project
cookstoves and fuel collection area
Project Level
Assessment
Target area - A village or a Group of Villages or
- Municipalities,
- Department or Country, or
- Across multiple adjacent countries in a single
sub-region
Project Level
Assessment
Fuel production
and collection
area
- The area within which this woody biomass can
reasonably be expected to be produced,
collected and supplied
Project Level
Assessment

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Measuring Emission reduction(s)
Parameter Details Options
NP,y Number of project cookstoves of each age
group operational
Actual
Py Quantity of firewood that is saved per
Household
Calculated (eq-2)
UP,y Usage rate for project cookstoves in year Survey
fNRB,b,y Fraction of biomass used in the baseline
scenario, which can be established as non-
renewable
Default or project
level Assessment
EFb,fuel,CO2 CO2 emission factor of firewood that is
substituted or reduced
Default

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Criteria Details Options
EFb,fuel,non_CO2 Non-CO2 emission factor of firewood that is
substituted or reduced. (Default value for wood
fuel 0.455 tCO2/ton of wood)
Default
DFb,Stove,y Usage of baseline cookstove during the year y
(fraction) in project scenario
Survey

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Quantity of firewood saved
Parameter Details Options
Bb,y Quantity of firewood consumed in baseline
scenario during year
Survey/Literature/P
erformance
Test/Default
ηp,y Efficiency of project cookstove in year y
(fraction)
Efficiency Test
ηb Efficiency of the baseline cookstove being
replaced (fraction).
Default
* A default value of 10% shall be used if the replaced cookstove is a three stone fire,
or a conventional device without a grate or a chimney i.e. with no improved
combustion air supply or flue gas ventilation

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Other parameters
Criteria Details Options
DFη Discount factor to account for efficiency loss of
project cookstove per year of operation
(Fraction)
Default or Monitor
Leakage Emissions
Parameter Details Options
Leakage - Applicable only for Micro-Scale Programm Default or Monitor

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Monitoring requirements
A. Sales Record/ Project database
1. Frequency (Continuous)
• Date of sale and of installation
• Geographic area of sale
• Model/type of project Cookstove(s) sold
• Name and telephone number (if available), address:
• Date of installation

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A. Monitoring Studies
• User Survey
– Frequency (Annual)
– Sample Size
• Project target population < 300: Minimum sample size 30
• Project target population 300 to 1000: Minimum sample size 10% of
group size
• Project target population > 1000 Minimum sample size 100
• Usage of baseline Cookstove during the year y (fraction) in project
scenario
• Physical conditions of the cookstoves
Monitoring requirements

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Guidelines/Survey Template(s)
• Baseline, Project , Usage Survey
• How to assess the physical condition of Cookstove to
ensure that it is usable or not?
• Calculation tool

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