Emission Reduction Project Cycle:
GHG Validations and Verifications

Qualifications & Experience:

Ruby Canyon Engineering (RCE) has completed complex GHG inventories for several U.S. and international companies that included stationary combustion, mobile combustion, process emissions, fugitive emissions, and indirect electric emissions. As a result, the RCE staff is quite familiar with emissions estimation, calculation methods, emission factors, and the concepts of materiality. Moreover, RCE has completed numerous project design documents and monitoring plans for CDM and VER projects, as well as attended validation meetings for project proponents. This experience has given RCE first hand knowledge of project eligibility issues, monitoring and metering systems, and additionality testing.

Since its formation, RCE has been a subcontractor to the U.S. EPA's Climate Change Division. As part of this project, RCE manages the coal emissions inventory each year for the annual "U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks" document. Over the years, RCE has made significant improvements to the methodology used to calculate emissions avoided at coal mines that recover and use methane. These changes, which have been adopted by U.S. EPA, have increased the accuracy and reduced the uncertainty associated with the coal emissions inventory. RCE authored a new abandoned mine methane emissions estimation methodology on behalf of U.S. EPA's Coalbed Methane Outreach Program that was accepted into the 2006 IPCC Greenhouse Gas Inventory Guidelines. More recently, RCE has developed VCS methodologies for abandoned and surface coal mines.

RCE is an experienced greenhouse gas (GHG) project verifier. The senior staff at RCE has been verifying GHG offset projects since 2003 in the U.S. RCE completed the ANSI accreditation program and has been an ISO 14065 approved GHG validator and verifier (V&V) since October 2009. RCE is currently an approved verifier for the Climate Action Reserve, The Climate Registry, American Carbon Registry Pacific Carbon Trust, Chicago Climate Exchange, and GHG mandatory reporting in British Columbia and Massachusetts. RCE has completed GHG verifications in the landfill gas, livestock methane, coal mine methane, organic waste digestion, oil & gas, renewable energy, biomass, ozone depleting substances, nitrous oxides, and transportation sectors.