Promotion of clean cooking solutions in rural India by Infosys – VPA 2

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard biogas project in rural India has a VVB-confirmed additionality assessment and conservative usage-rate assumptions, but is undermined by a very large number of material findings and corrective actions (over 35 combined), an unaddressed leakage justification, and the absence of any stated buffer pool. The 2024 monitoring period delivered roughly 284% of the pro-rata ex-ante expectation, which may reflect legitimate project expansion but is difficult to reconcile with the numerous data inconsistencies flagged by the VVB.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with the justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the 2024 verification report, meaning no quantified or qualitative leakage analysis is on file.
• ⚠The VVB identified 15 material findings and required 25+ corrective actions, including incorrect formulas, interchanged monitoring-period values, and inconsistencies between the monitoring report and the ER calculation sheet.
• ⚠The crediting period in the 2024 validation report (2025-01-01 to 2030-12-31) contradicts the 2025 verification report (2021-09-29 to 2026-09-28), creating uncertainty about the actual crediting window.
• ⚠The FNRB method changed from 'national default' (2023 verification) to 'local field' (2025 verification) without a clear explanation in the extracted record.

Credit Vintages