5 MW Dunali Run-of-the-river, Small Hydro Electric Project”, Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh by M/s Jala Shakti Limited (JSL).

Audit Analysis

A 5 MW run-of-the-river hydro project in Himachal Pradesh with a VVB-verified investment additionality test and a jurisdictional grid baseline. However, the verified emissions reductions (17,262 tCO2) represent only about 12% of the pro-rata expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, raising serious over-crediting concerns in the ex-ante estimate. Five corrective action requests during validation revealed material errors in the investment analysis and grid emission factor calculation, though all were subsequently resolved.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified ERR of 17,262 tCO2 is only ~12% of the pro-rata expectation (~140,666 tCO2) for the 8.7-year monitoring period, indicating severe under-delivery or an overly optimistic ex-ante estimate
• ⚠Five corrective action requests (CARs) were raised during validation, including errors in the investment analysis spreadsheet and use of a simple average instead of a generation-weighted average for the grid emission factor
• ⚠Crediting period dates differ between the validation report (2011-10-20 to 2021-10-19) and the monitoring report (2012-04-23 to 2022-04-22), a six-month shift that is unexplained

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