216 MWac Kamuthi Solar Power Project

Audit Analysis

The Kamuthi Solar Power Project is a 216 MWac solar PV avoidance project with a VVB-verified combined additionality test and a jurisdictional baseline, which are solid foundations. However, the verification report (November 2025) identified numerous data-quality corrections—including a non-conservative rounding error, missing meter calibration certificates, and multiple internal inconsistencies in the ER calculation sheet—all of which were remediated before approval. The project's inherent risk profile is low for a solar PV activity, but the absence of a stated buffer pool, the lack of FPIC, and contradictory leakage justifications between the monitoring and verification reports temper confidence.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Four corrective action requests (CARs) were raised in the November 2025 verification report, including a non-conservative rounding of the 2020 ER value and missing meter calibration certificates, indicating data-quality weaknesses that required remediation.
• ⚠The monitoring report (September 2025) describes leakage as 'quantified' while the verification report (November 2025) records it as 'deemed negligible' with a 0% deduction—an inconsistency in how leakage was treated across documents.
• ⚠Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) was not conducted, and benefit-sharing documentation is contradictory between the monitoring report (described) and the verification report (not described).
• ⚠Registry status is 'Verification approval requested'—the project has not yet received final verification approval, so the credits are not yet issued.

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