Hydroelectric Project El Edén
#447of 1935 in Renewable energy#11of 124 in Colombia#224of 1339 in Verra (VCS)#336of 1287 in ACM0002
Audit Analysis
El Edén is a VCS-registered hydroelectric project in Colombia with VVB-verified additionality and a recent monitoring period (2021–2024), but it carries moderate integrity concerns from a project-specific baseline, an unaddressed leakage justification, and two corrective actions related to data quality. The project is under-delivering relative to expectations due to hydrological variability, which is conservative for claim safety, yet the absence of a buffer pool and the baseline-method contradiction between documents warrant caution.
Red Flags
- Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the November 2025 verification report, while the April 2025 monitoring report calls it 'deemed negligible' — an inconsistency that weakens the leakage treatment
- Two corrective actions required by the VVB: correction of the project start date and elimination of 2021 generation data that was wrongly included in the ER calculation, indicating data-quality issues in the monitoring record
- Baseline method is recorded as 'project' in the 2025 verification report but 'jurisdictional' in the 2025 monitoring report — an unresolved discrepancy that affects baseline credibility
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 20,515 | 12,412 | 8,103 | |
| 2018 | 24,041 | 24,041 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 14,762 | 14,706 | 56 | |
| 2020 | 13,792 | 13,792 | 0 | |
| Total | 73,110 | 64,951 | 8,159 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-confirmed investment test
mixed evidence / unresolved risk
0% deduction, justification inconsistent
Project-specific, method label contradicted
FPIC, grievance, safeguards confirmed (2025 VR)
CORSIA excluded, CCP status not stated
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