40 MW Wind Power Project at Maliya, Gujarat

Audit Analysis

A 40 MW onshore wind project in Gujarat, India, verified under Gold Standard with a combined additionality test confirmed by a reputable VVB (Applus+). The project is an avoidance-type credit with low inherent permanence risk, but the record is weakened by four corrective action requests, inconsistent leakage justification across documents, a contradiction in the baseline method description, and a low extraction confidence that limits assurance in the extracted data.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Four Corrective Action Requests (CARs) were raised during verification, indicating unresolved compliance or reporting issues at the time of the audit.
• ⚠Leakage justification is inconsistent: the 2025 verification report states leakage was 'not addressed' while the 2020 monitoring report describes it as 'deemed negligible' — the 0% deduction lacks a clear, consistent rationale.
• ⚠Total ERR claimed is contradicted between documents (206,338 in the monitoring report vs. 563,630 in an appendix), and no verified ERR figure is available to confirm the claimed value.
• ⚠Baseline method is described as 'project' in the 2025 verification report but 'jurisdictional' in the 2018 PDD, creating ambiguity about the baseline's robustness.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated 'low', meaning at least one key document was poorly readable and the structured data may be incomplete or misread.

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