Bannari Amman Spinning Mills Wind Power Project managed by Enercon (India) Ltd.

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind power project with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a jurisdictional grid baseline, but the validation process generated 17 material findings (9 corrective action requests and 8 clarifications), including a direct challenge to the additionality justification. A contradiction between the validation report and the later monitoring report on the baseline method (project-specific vs. jurisdictional) introduces data-reliability concerns. The project is a low-permanence-risk avoidance type, but the volume of unresolved documentation gaps at validation and the absence of a verified ERR figure limit confidence in the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠17 material findings at validation (9 CARs + 8 CLs), including CAR 5 which states the justification for benchmark and input parameters for additionality was missing
• ⚠Baseline method contradiction: the 2011 validation report records a project-specific baseline while the 2018 monitoring report records a jurisdictional baseline
• ⚠No verified ERR figure is available in the extracted record; only the lifetime claimed total of 102,457 tCO₂e is present
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.9452 tCO₂/MWh is drawn from 2009 data, which is at the start of the crediting period and may not reflect later grid changes

Credit Vintages