12.5 MW Small Scale Grid Connected “Wind Electricity Generation Project” by KRBL Ltd., District Dhule, Maharashtra, India

Audit Analysis

A 12.5 MW CDM wind project with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a conservative verification outcome (verified ERR exceeds claimed ERR). However, a contradiction between the 2009 validation report (project-specific baseline) and the 2020 monitoring report (jurisdictional baseline), combined with inconsistent claimed ERR figures across monitoring reports, introduces moderate uncertainty into the baseline and data-reliability picture.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method contradiction: the 2009 validation report describes a project-specific baseline while the 2020 monitoring report characterises it as jurisdictional — the applicable baseline for CDM is fixed at validation, so the 2020 characterisation may be inaccurate
• ⚠Claimed ERR differs between the 2018 monitoring report (20,669 tCO2e) and the 2020 monitoring report (7,809 tCO2e); if these refer to the same period the discrepancy is unexplained, and if they refer to different periods the basis is not clearly stated
• ⚠Verified ERR of 29,227 tCO2e is roughly three times the pro-rata expectation (~9,822 tCO2e for a 6-month window out of a 10-year crediting period with a 196,440 tCO2e ex-ante estimate), which is unusual and warrants clarification of the reporting period

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