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Installation of high efficiency wood burning cookstoves in Indonesia 1
C-Quest Capital Stoves Asia Limited · Multiple provinces · — ha
C-Quest Capital pipeline VMR0006 cookstove project 'Indonesia 1', one of several Asia-Pacific programmes from a developer hit by a major integrity scandal. Former CEO Ken Newcombe was criminally charged October 2024 for alleged $100M carbon credit fraud; Verra suspended 27 CQC projects; C-Quest filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy February 2025. Pipeline status highly uncertain; acquired by Bridge Carbon.
- Name
- Installation of high efficiency wood burning cookstoves in Indonesia 1
- Developer
- C-Quest Capital Stoves Asia Limited
- Province
- Multiple provinces
- Type
- Energy demand
- Methodology
- VMR0006
- Status
- Pipeline
- Integrity score
- 63 / 100
- Registry IDs
- Verra VCS3327
- Generated
- Updated 2026-04-23
What is Installation of high efficiency wood burning cookstoves in Indonesia 1?
C-Quest Capital pipeline VMR0006 cookstove project 'Indonesia 1', one of several Asia-Pacific programmes from a developer hit by a major integrity scandal. Former CEO Ken Newcombe was criminally charged October 2024 for alleged $100M carbon credit fraud; Verra suspended 27 CQC projects; C-Quest filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy February 2025.
Who operates Installation of high efficiency wood burning cookstoves in Indonesia 1?
Installation of high efficiency wood burning cookstoves in Indonesia 1 is developed by C-Quest Capital Stoves Asia Limited and listed on Verra VCS3327.
What is its integrity score?
63 / 100. Driven down by validation recency (50) and supported by community flags (75).
Why is it notable?
Latest news. 2025-02-27 — C-Quest Capital LLC filed bankruptcy; cookstove portfolio acquired by Bridge Carbon . 2024-10-03 — US DOJ indictment of Newcombe and Goswami . 2024-07-03 — CQC self-reports former CEO . 2024-06 — Verra suspended 27 CQC cookstove projects .
When was this last updated?
This dossier was generated on 2026-04-23 by claude-agent-websearch.
C-Quest Capital pipeline VMR0006 cookstove project 'Indonesia 1', one of several Asia-Pacific programmes from a developer hit by a major integrity scandal. Former CEO Ken Newcombe was criminally charged October 2024 for alleged $100M carbon credit fraud; Verra suspended 27 CQC projects; C-Quest filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy February 2025. Pipeline status highly uncertain; acquired by Bridge Carbon.
Analyst briefing
Activities & scale The project covers distribution and installation of high-efficiency firewood cookstoves in Indonesian households under Verra VMR0006, applying the suppressed-demand approach to estimate avoided non-renewable biomass and GHG emissions. It is listed as 'Indonesia 1' — the first of four large cookstove programmes C-Quest unveiled for Indonesia and the Philippines 8, but remains in pipeline with no specific deployment counts or crediting periods publicly disclosed.
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Integrity score
Moderate
v1 methodology, calibrating. Last computed 2026-06-10.
Registries
Issuances
Pipeline — no issuances recorded.
Retirements
—
Total retired
No retirements recorded.
Satellite alerts (last 90 days)
Total
4.634
High confidence
0
Nominal confidence
0
Score methodology
Score computed 2026-06-10 from inputs: alerts last 90 days (4634), high-confidence alerts (0), registries (1), years since validation (unknown).
Methodology v1. Weights: validation recency 25%, reversal risk 35%, community flags 20%, transparency 20%. See full methodology →