The two direct beneficiary firms of the project (the sawmill providing the bulk of the wood waste and the brewery) have both access to the national grid. Thus, the project boundaries encompass the following:

• The biomass (wood waste) cogeneration plant (assumed to have zero emissions);

• The Aboadze thermal plant at Takoradi;

• The import of thermal power from la Cote d’Ivoire;

• The standby diesel generating sets at the two beneficiary firms used during power outages;

• The residual oils used in the boilers in the brewery;

• The biomass (wood wastes) burnt in the boilers of the sawmill (assumed to have zero emissions).

This project seeks to mitigate climate change by contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. There is a looming power crisis from 2002 and the Ministry of Energy is considering bringing in emergency power barges to be run on crude oil. The imminent power crisis is due to the low water levels in the dams at

Akosombo and Kpong. These low water levels are the result of poor rainfall which is being attributed to the negative impacts of climate change.

Just as the project boundary is dynamic, so is the baseline. In the absence of the biomass CHP plant, the sources of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are:

• The hydropower from the Akosombo and Kpong dams (zero emissions);

• The Aboadze thermal plant at Takoradi running on crude oil (2003-2006);

• The Aboadze thermal plant at Takoradi running on natural gas from the proposed West African Gas Pipeline (2006-2020);

• The import of thermal power from la Cote d’Ivoire run mainly on natural gas;

• The standby diesel generating sets at the two beneficiary Firms used during power outages;

• The residual oils used in the boilers of the brewery;

• The biomass (wood wastes) burnt in the boilers of the sawmill (assumed to have zero emissions).

The issue of the timing of the emergency power additions are also applicable to the baseline scenario here. In addition, there is also the issue of the timing of the West African Gas Pipeline Project.