3.3 MW Wind Power Project in India

Audit Analysis

A 3.3 MW onshore wind project in India registered under CDM with a jurisdictional grid baseline and VVB-confirmed investment additionality. The project's core design is sound for a wind avoidance project, but the extracted record contains no monitoring or verification data, and the validation report flagged eight material findings that required corrective action before registration. Overall, the project is structurally credible but the evidence base available for scoring is thin.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eight material findings (CARs) were raised during validation, including missing justification for the simple operating margin, PDD sections not following CDM-SSC-PDD guidelines, and monitoring practices in the PDD not reflecting actual site practices for electricity apportionment.
• ⚠No monitoring report or verified ERR figure is present in the extracted record, making it impossible to confirm actual credit delivery against the 61,170 tCO2e lifetime claim.
• ⚠Grid emission factor is fixed at the 2009 value (0.9225 tCO2/MWh); no evidence of periodic grid EF updates or baseline reassessment is found in the available documents.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.