10MW Anorchi Lanka (Baruthankanda) Solar Power Project (2018-SOP-003-10.0MW)

Audit Analysis

A 10 MW solar programme in Sri Lanka under Gold Standard with a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and a jurisdictional baseline, but the record is marred by numerous corrective actions, calibration and data-consistency findings, and several key parameters (FNRB, usage rate, CORSIA/CCP status) that remain unstated. The verified ERR is lower than the claimed figure, which is conservative, yet the pro-rata delivery ratio is unusually high and the leakage justification is internally inconsistent across documents.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven contradictions across documents, including conflicting baseline method (jurisdictional vs project-specific), conflicting leakage justification (deemed negligible vs quantified), and conflicting ERR figures (78,292 vs 65,781 tCO2e), indicating data-reliability concerns.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified despite the absence of reported reversal events.
• ⚠Multiple material findings in the verification report include calibration delays for meters GS11419/GS11420, monthly electricity data not matching invoices, and failure to account for potential fossil-fuel consumption in project emissions.
• ⚠FNRB value, usage rate (assumed and verified), CORSIA eligibility, and CCP status are all not stated in the extracted record, creating significant evidence gaps for claim-safety assessment.
• ⚠The pro-rata ERR delivery ratio (verified 65,781 vs expected ≈18,268 for the 14-month monitoring window out of a 60-month crediting period) is roughly 3.6×, which warrants scrutiny of whether the ex-ante estimate was overly conservative or the monitoring scope was broader than the crediting-period baseline.

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