119.8 MW Natural Gas Based Combined Cycle Power Plant, At Tanjavur, Tamilnadu By M/S Aban Power Company Limited

Integrity

The validation/verification record indicates additionality was confirmed by the VVB (Earthood Services Private Limited), which supports additionality robustness. The baseline is described as project-specific, and the timing of any baseline reassessment is not stated in available documents, which weakens confidence that baseline assumptions remained appropriate over time. Leakage is described as quantified, but the actual leakage deduction percentage is not found in the extracted record, limiting the ability to judge conservativeness.

Transparency

For the monitoring period 2010-12-16 to 2015-08-10, the monitoring/verification record shows the same total emission reductions claimed and verified (1,354,428 tCO2e), which is a positive signal for MRV consistency. However, the monitoring report (2021-09-20) lists multiple corrective actions (e.g., missing ex-ante emissions calculations in the MR and missing conservativeness rounding application in the ER sheet), which reduces transparency and auditability of the calculations from the extracted record. Key quantitative inputs such as the grid emission factor year/value are not found in the extracted record.

Claim Safety

Over-crediting risk is moderately elevated because the baseline is project-specific and key baseline inputs (including the grid emission factor) are not found in the extracted record, making independent reasonableness checks difficult. The monitoring report includes a corrective action requesting a declaration to avoid double counting with other GHG programs and India’s REC mechanism, indicating this risk needed explicit mitigation at the time of review. CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are not stated in available documents, so downstream claims compatibility cannot be confirmed from the extracted record.

Documentation

The extracted package includes a monitoring report and validation report (plus an additional unidentified document type), with four documents used and high extraction confidence, supporting a mid-to-good documentation score. Nonetheless, the monitoring report (2021-09-20) contains numerous corrective actions related to formatting, missing location evidence, incomplete sections, and missing calculation elements, indicating the documentation set was not fully compliant/complete at the time assessed. Several important fields (e.g., baseline reassessment timing, leakage deduction percentage, grid emission factor details) are not found in the extracted record.

Overall

No contradictions were identified in the extracted record, so scores are not adjusted for cross-document discrepancies. The strongest positives are VVB-confirmed additionality and the match between claimed and verified emission reductions for the monitoring period. The main constraints on the overall score are evidence gaps on baseline inputs/reassessment and leakage quantification, plus the breadth of corrective actions in the monitoring report, which collectively increase uncertainty and claims risk. (Gate note: documentation is above 3.0 and integrity is above 4.0, so no post-scoring caps would be triggered.)