16.875 MW Large Scale Grid Connected Wind Electricity Generation Project by Indian Renewable Energy Foundation

Audit Analysis

A 16.875 MW grid-connected wind project in India validated under CDM with a well-structured investment additionality test confirmed by Bureau Veritas and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. However, a ten-fold discrepancy in the claimed emission reductions between the PDD and the validation report, combined with low extraction confidence and the absence of any verified monitoring-period data, significantly undermines confidence in the project's quantitative claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Ten-fold discrepancy in total emission reductions: the PDD states 337,306 tCO2e while the validation report states 33,731 tCO2e — a factor-of-ten gap that is not explained in the extracted record and raises serious data-reliability concerns.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing trust in the completeness of the evidence base.
• ⚠No verified monitoring-period emission reductions, no monitoring period dates, and no issuance data were found in the extracted record, leaving the project's actual delivery unconfirmed.
• ⚠Thirteen material findings were logged during validation (including corrected baseline emission-factor calculation errors and a change in the number of wind turbines from 80 to 75), indicating the initial PDD contained multiple substantive errors.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.