15 MW Grid Connected Renewable Energy Wind Turbine In Karnataka

Audit Analysis

A 15 MW wind project in Karnataka with VCS-registered credits (79,013 tCO2e) that passed verification despite an unusually large number of material findings and corrective actions. Additionality is confirmed via an investment test, but the non-permanence analysis is essentially blank, no buffer pool is documented, and the verification record contains multiple internal contradictions and data-quality errors that undermine confidence in the underlying calculations.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Non-permanence risk analysis lists 'NA' for risk, assessment, response, and level — no substantive permanence risk treatment for a 10-year crediting period
• ⚠20+ material findings in the verification report including ERR tables not summing correctly, missing B-Forms, calibration delays, and a calculation formula mismatch between the ER sheet and monitoring report
• ⚠IRR crosses the benchmark when the plant load factor increases by 10%, indicating the additionality margin is thin and sensitive to operational assumptions
• ⚠Baseline method is simultaneously described as 'project' and 'jurisdictional' within the same 2021 verification report
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory within the same document: 'not_addressed' in one section and 'deemed_negligible' in another, with a 0% deduction

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