40 MW Orange Charanka Solar Power Project in Gujarat, India

Audit Analysis

A 40 MW solar PV avoidance project under Gold Standard with VVB-confirmed additionality and a recent grid emission factor, but hampered by a missing leakage justification, an unverified ERR figure, and seven cross-document contradictions that reduce confidence in the data record. The project is CORSIA-eligible and uses a standard methodology (ACM0002 v17.01), but the absence of a verified emissions reduction figure and the unresolved discrepancy between claimed ERR values (380,092 vs 167,298) create meaningful over-crediting uncertainty.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the verification report (2024-05-29), while the monitoring report (2024-05-07) claims it was 'deemed negligible' — the higher-priority verification report does not support the 0% deduction
• ⚠No verified ERR figure is available (total_err_verified is absent from the record), and the two claimed ERR values (380,092 from the appendix dated 2024-12-07 and 167,298 from the monitoring report dated 2024-05-07) differ by a factor of 2.3, making it impossible to confirm the actual emissions reduction delivered
• ⚠Three Corrective Action Requests were raised in the verification report, indicating unresolved compliance issues at the time of verification
• ⚠Seven contradictions across documents (leakage, baseline method, ERR, additionality test, FPIC, reversal events, crediting period) signal inconsistent record-keeping

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