Bundled Wind Power Project at Theni

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind project in India with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test, a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline, and conservative verified reductions that exceeded the PDD estimate for the monitoring period. The project carries no inherent permanence risk (wind displaces grid electricity) and a 0% leakage deduction is well-justified for this technology. Minor concerns include a dated 2011 grid emission factor, a meter-accuracy discrepancy during early monitoring, and a documentation inconsistency on whether the baseline is 'jurisdictional' or 'project-specific'.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.9161 tCO2/MWh is from 2011 and has not been updated in the available documents, potentially overstating reductions if the Indian grid has decarbonised since then.
• ⚠Energy meters of accuracy class 0.5s were used instead of the registered 0.2s class for WEC WES-RE2-T 34 until April 2013, introducing measurement uncertainty in early monitoring data.
• ⚠The validation report (2012) describes the baseline as 'project' while the 2021 monitoring report calls it 'jurisdictional' — an inconsistency that could affect baseline credibility if the project-specific characterisation was the original intent.

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