22.5 MW grid connected wind farm project by RSMML in Jaisalmer, India.

Audit Analysis

A 22.5 MW CDM wind project in Jaisalmer, India, with VVB-confirmed additionality and CORSIA eligibility, but undermined by five corrective action requests, a PDD-to-actual-installation mismatch, an unaddressed leakage justification, and a grid emission factor frozen at 2007 values. The project's avoidance-type nature limits reversal risk, yet the volume of material findings and the absence of a verified ERR figure in the extracted record raise meaningful concerns about the robustness of the credit claim.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠PDD specification does not match the windmills actually installed (CL-1 in the 2019 monitoring report), casting doubt on the accuracy of the ex-ante ERR estimate of 282,910 tCO₂e
• ⚠Five corrective action requests (CAR-1 through CAR-3) and five compliance-level findings (CL-1 through CL-5) were raised in the 2019 monitoring report, including an inadequately justified additionality analysis (Step 3 alone) and a monitoring method that failed to account for other clients' turbines on the same meter
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.8971 tCO₂/MWh is anchored to 2007 data; no updated or reassessed value is found in the extracted record for a project operating through 2018
• ⚠Leakage justification is recorded as 'not addressed' in the most recent monitoring report (May 2019), contradicting an earlier 2017 report that described it as 'deemed negligible'
• ⚠Total verified ERR for the monitoring period (Jan 2017 – Dec 2018) is not found in the extracted record, preventing any pro-rata delivery check against the 282,910 tCO₂e lifetime claim

Credit Vintages