Green House Gas Abatement through installation of a wind power project for export to the Grid.

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind power project in India with a solid additionality case (combined test confirmed by DNV, IRR below benchmark without CERs) and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. The project delivered only about 16% of its pro-rata expected emissions reductions over the elapsed monitoring period, which eliminates over-crediting risk but raises questions about the accuracy of the initial ex-ante estimate. Safeguards documentation (FPIC, grievance mechanism) is absent from the extracted record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified ERR of 34,821 tCO2e over ~8 years is only ~16% of the pro-rata expectation (~216,000 tCO2e) derived from the 273,935 tCO2e lifetime estimate, suggesting the initial ex-ante estimate was substantially overstated or the project operated well below design capacity
• ⚠Crediting period is stated as 2013–2022 in the 2020 monitoring report but 2012–2021 in the 2013 monitoring report; the discrepancy is unresolved in the extracted record
• ⚠No FPIC or grievance mechanism is documented in any available source, despite safeguards being mentioned and benefit sharing described

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