14 MW Wind Power Project in Maharashtra

Audit Analysis

A 14 MW onshore wind project in Maharashtra verified under CDM with a combined additionality test confirmed by TÜV NORD CERT and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. The project type carries inherently low reversal and leakage risk, but the record is weakened by low extraction confidence, multiple inter-document contradictions (grid EF units, ERR figures, crediting-period dates), and 12 corrective action requests raised during verification. Overall a moderate-quality credit with manageable but non-trivial data-reliability concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set means at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of all extracted figures.
• ⚠The verified ERR (41,494 tCO₂) is roughly 2.4× the claimed ERR (17,613 tCO₂) in the 2020 monitoring report; if these refer to the same period the discrepancy is unexplained, and if they refer to different periods the record does not make that clear.
• ⚠Twelve corrective action requests and five clarification requests were raised during verification (all closed), indicating non-trivial data-quality issues in the project proponent's original submission.
• ⚠Grid emission factor appears in two different units across documents (0.82 tCO₂/MWh in the monitoring report vs 860 gCO₂/kWh in the validation report), creating ambiguity about which value was actually applied.

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