Grid Connected Wind Power Project by M/s. D. J. Malpani at Ratan Ka Bas (RKB), Rajasthan

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind power project in Rajasthan with a confirmed additionality assessment and jurisdictional baseline, but severely undermined by a seven-fold discrepancy in claimed emissions reductions between the PDD and the validation report, six material findings requiring correction, and a near-total absence of monitoring or verification data. The project's fundamental design (grid-connected wind displacing fossil-fuel generation) is sound, but the documentation and data reliability issues raise significant concerns about the accuracy of the credit quantity.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven-fold discrepancy in total ERR: the PDD (Sep 2019) claims 52,598 tCO2e while the validation report (Oct 2019) records only 7,514 tCO2e — a difference of roughly 45,000 tCO2e that is unexplained in the available documents
• ⚠Six material findings in the validation report, including an incorrect installed capacity figure, inconsistent build-margin values, and a mismatched annual GHG reduction figure between the PDD and the ER sheet
• ⚠No monitoring report or verified ERR figure is available in the extracted record, making it impossible to confirm actual performance against the (already disputed) ex-ante estimate
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which compounds the data-reliability concern

Credit Vintages