Bundled Wind Power Project in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu

Audit Analysis

A registered VCS wind power project in India with a VVB-verified investment additionality test and a standard grid-emission-factor baseline under AMS I-D. The project delivered roughly 165% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the monitored period, which is plausible for a variable wind resource but is tempered by a baseline-method contradiction across documents, an unjustified 0% leakage deduction, and material findings flagging incomplete metering and blank values in the ER calculation. Overall a mid-range project with solid additionality but notable data-quality and documentation-consistency gaps.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method is recorded as 'project' in the 2020 verification report but 'jurisdictional' in the 2024 monitoring report — an unresolved contradiction that undermines confidence in the baseline characterisation.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with the justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the most recent verification report, leaving no documented rationale for the zero deduction.
• ⚠Material finding: only main meters (not main + check meters) were installed at the Theni and Gujarat sites, deviating from the project design document.
• ⚠Corrective actions note that net-generation values are blank for some months and invoice-based generation is missing for other months in the ER calculation sheet.
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the 2020 verification report records it as conducted, while the 2024 verification report records it as not conducted.

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