50 MW Mahoba Solar PV Power Project by M/s Prayatna Developers Pvt. Ltd. at Mahoba, UP

Audit Analysis

A 50 MW solar PV project in Uttar Pradesh, India, registered under Gold Standard with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and reasonable safeguards. However, eight contradictions across documents—including a major discrepancy between the PDD ex-ante estimate (90,900 tCO₂e) and the verified figure (273,034 tCO₂e), conflicting crediting periods, and a baseline method disagreement—combined with low extraction confidence, significantly undermine confidence in the data integrity. The project is inherently low-risk in terms of permanence and leakage for a solar PV technology, but the documentation inconsistencies warrant caution.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD ex-ante estimate of 90,900 tCO₂e is roughly one-third of the verified 273,034 tCO₂e for the monitoring period, and the basis for the PDD figure (full crediting period vs. single year) is unclear, making it impossible to confirm whether the project is over-delivering or the estimate was simply for a shorter window.
• ⚠The crediting period is stated as 2018-11-16 to 2023-11-15 in the verification report but 2020-08-27 to 2027-08-26 in the monitoring report—a two-year start-date gap and a four-year end-date gap that fundamentally changes the project's lifetime and the pro-rata ERR expectation.
• ⚠The baseline method is described as 'project' in the verification report (2025-08-07) but 'jurisdictional' in the monitoring report (2025-07-31), and the PDD is dated 2025-03-27, which post-dates the project's original start and the end of the monitoring period, raising questions about document provenance.
• ⚠Eight contradictions were identified across the document set, and the minimum extraction confidence is rated low, indicating that at least one key document was poorly readable and the structured data may not faithfully represent the source material.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.