Bundled Wind Power Project at Tamil Nadu, India

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind power project in Tamil Nadu with a confirmed investment-test additionality and jurisdictional baseline, but undermined by 13 material findings in the validation report, a seven-fold discrepancy in the claimed emission reduction figure between the PDD and the validation report, and a low-confidence extraction record with no monitoring reports available. The project's core design is sound for a wind displacement project, yet the volume of documentation deficiencies and calculation errors raises meaningful concerns about the reliability of the validated credit volume.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven-fold discrepancy in total emission reductions: the PDD (Jan 2015) states 74,368 tCO₂e while the validation report (Mar 2015) validates only 10,624 tCO₂e, a gap that is never explicitly reconciled in the available documents
• ⚠13 material findings in the validation report, including errors in IRR calculations, emission-factor unit errors, monitoring-plan deficiencies, and missing financial and stakeholder-engagement evidence
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, with one document of unknown type and no monitoring or verification reports present in the evidence list
• ⚠Contradictory leakage treatment across two PDD versions: one states leakage was 'quantified' (Jan 2014) while the later version (Jan 2015) states it was 'deemed negligible'

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.