7.5 MW Grid connected renewable electricity generation in Tiruvannamalai District, India

Audit Analysis

A 7.5 MW biomass-to-grid CDM project in India with a confirmed investment-test additionality and jurisdictional baseline, but severely limited post-validation documentation and a major seven-fold discrepancy in the expected emission reduction figures between the PDD and the validation report. The project's crediting period expired in September 2018, yet no monitoring or verification reports were found in the extracted record, leaving actual performance unverified.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Expected emission reduction figure differs by a factor of seven between the PDD (280,987 tCO2e) and the validation report (40,141 tCO2e), raising serious questions about which figure was used for registration and whether over-crediting occurred.
• ⚠Crediting period stated as 7 years (2011–2018) in the validation report but 21 years (2011–2032) in an appendix, creating ambiguity about the project's approved duration.
• ⚠No monitoring or verification reports were found despite the crediting period having expired in 2018, meaning actual emission reductions are entirely unverified.
• ⚠Feedstock sustainability and carbon content testing are not stated in any available document, which is a material gap for a biomass energy project.
• ⚠Extraction confidence is rated low, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of the extracted data.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.