5 MW Brahm Ganga Hydro – Electric Project At Kullu District Of Himachal Pradesh, India
#911of 1935 in Renewable energy#458of 975 in India#570of 1339 in Verra (VCS)
Audit Analysis
A 5 MW run-of-river hydro project in Himachal Pradesh with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a jurisdictional baseline, but undermined by 14 corrective actions, 8 cross-document contradictions, and an unaddressed leakage justification. The project over-delivered relative to its pro-rata ex-ante expectation (167%), which is reassuring for claim safety, yet the data-quality issues and outdated 2009 grid emission factor limit confidence in the overall credit quality.
Red Flags
- 14 corrective actions required in the 2021 verification report, including inconsistent electricity generation values, missing calibration records, and absent month-wise emission reduction calculations
- Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the 2021 verification report, while the monitoring report claims it was 'deemed negligible' — an unresolved discrepancy
- Grid emission factor of 0.84006 tCO2/MWh is from 2009; no updated factor or reassessment is documented, raising the risk of an overstated baseline
- 8 contradictions across documents, including conflicting baseline method (jurisdictional vs project-specific) and conflicting additionality test type (investment vs combined)
Credit Vintages Exhausted
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 38,554 | 38,554 | 0 | |
| 2010 | 19,658 | 19,658 | 0 | |
| 2011 | 21,131 | 21,131 | 0 | |
| 2012 | 21,468 | 21,468 | 0 | |
| 2013 | 20,840 | 20,840 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 16,422 | 16,422 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 13,013 | 13,013 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 18,808 | 18,808 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 19,588 | 19,588 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 1,586 | 1,586 | 0 | |
| Total | 191,068 | 191,068 | 0 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-confirmed investment test
mixed evidence / unresolved risk
0% deduction, justification not addressed in VR
Jurisdictional but 2009 grid EF, no reassessment documented
Grievance mechanism present, FPIC not conducted, benefit sharing contradictory
CORSIA-ineligible confirmed, CCP status not stated
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