Grid-Connected Renewable Electricity

Overview

GCCM001 is the Global Carbon Council methodology for renewable energy generation projects that supply electricity to a connected grid or to captive consumers. Eligible activities are renewable power projects, such as solar, wind, and hydropower, that displace electricity otherwise provided by a more emission-intensive mix of grid sources. The methodology sets baseline and monitoring rules to calculate the resulting emission reductions. Each credit is an Approved Carbon Credit equal to one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent avoided.

Sources: methodology document · Global Carbon Council

01 · Roles

The workflow as an explicit directed graph. In Graph each column is one role, so you can see who acts at each step; every node names the org.broadlistening.policy.block.* def it resolves to plus its input and output record. Data flow switches to a lineage view that makes explicit what data each node needs and makes, with dependency arcs tracing every record back to the node that produced it. Hover to trace, click to inspect; revise edges (dashed) send work back.

03 · Generated lexicon records

The records this methodology compiles to, ready to write to a PDS. The first tabs are the new policy engine records; the ★ claim.activity tab and those after it are reused ATProto Collective Funding Ecosystem records (org.hypercerts.*): the issued hypercert batch, its rights, an example verification attachment and a retirement receipt.

{
  "$type": "org.broadlistening.policy.methodology",
  "code": "GCCM001",
  "name": "Grid-Connected Renewable Electricity",
  "registry": "Global Carbon Council (GCC)",
  "sector": "Energy",
  "creditType": "reduction",
  "status": "active",
  "version": "1.0",
  "roles": [
    {
      "id": "registry",
      "name": "Standard Registry",
      "permission": "Owns the policy, approves participants, anchors each issuance to its evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "proponent",
      "name": "Project Proponent",
      "permission": "Registers the project and submits monitoring reports."
    },
    {
      "id": "vvb",
      "name": "Validation & Verification Body",
      "permission": "Independently validates the design and verifies monitored data."
    }
  ],
  "schemas": [
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/gccm001-project-design",
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/gccm001-monitoring-report"
  ],
  "graph": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.graph/gccm001",
  "issuesAs": "org.hypercerts.claim.activity",
  "workScope": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.workscope.cel/gccm001-scope",
  "rights": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.claim.rights/gccm001-rights",
  "createdAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

04 · Schemas

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