Gold Standard has published Tool 10, a technical addendum to the UNFCCC Article 6.4 Methodological Tool 'Emissions from electricity generation and consumption', to help renewable energy projects in countries with limited electricity data meet high-integrity carbon accounting requirements. An independent assessment found that fewer than 15% of host nations globally possess the digital infrastructure for the preferred approaches in the latest UNFCCC grid-emissions methodology. Tool 10 introduces provisional measures, including a 10% conservativeness discount for annual data when hourly dispatch data is unavailable, and a 5% ceiling and 24-month administrative lag buffer for vintage-decay factors. It also clarifies conditions for treating intermittent generation sources with Battery Energy Storage Systems as non-intermittent. This initiative aims to make carbon finance more accessible in developing markets while maintaining environmental integrity.
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