10MW Nedunkulam Solar PV Project (2018-SOP-002-10.0MW)

Audit Analysis

A 10 MW solar PV project in Sri Lanka under Gold Standard with VVB-confirmed additionality and a reasonable leakage treatment, but undermined by a project-specific baseline, no stated buffer pool, unaddressed reversal risk, and a substantial list of corrective action requests and comments indicating significant data-quality and documentation gaps. The ERR figures are internally consistent for the monitored period, yet the volume of unresolved findings (four CARs, six CLs) and a 2016 grid emission factor raise meaningful over-crediting concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Four Corrective Action Requests (CAR-01 to CAR-04) remain open, including failure to account for potential fossil-fuel consumption in project emissions and inconsistent LCMR data for the 2016 OM/BM calculation
• ⚠Six Comments/Queries (CL-01 to CL-06) flag missing cross-effect analysis for the hybrid Solar PV-Wind configuration, a Prior Consideration Form submitted by a different entity (SLCF vs KOHO), and absent project boundary definitions
• ⚠Reversal events are explicitly 'not addressed' in the verification report and no buffer pool percentage is stated, leaving permanence risk unquantified
• ⚠Grid emission factor is from 2016 (0.759333 tCO2/MWh) with no evidence of periodic updating, potentially inflating claimed reductions
• ⚠Meter calibration gaps for GS11419 and GS11420 during Nov–Dec 2021 and Dec 2022, with a 1% maximum permissible error applied as a workaround

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