Rajwakti Small Scale Hydropower Project

Audit Analysis

The Rajwakti small-scale hydropower project has a confirmed additionality assessment and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline, but suffers from a non-permanence risk analysis that lists 'NA' for every risk field, no stated buffer pool, and eleven corrective actions raised by the VVB. Multiple contradictions between the verification report, monitoring report, and validation report — including a disputed crediting period and a grid-emission-factor decimal error — undermine confidence in the data record. The project is a grid-connected renewable with inherently low reversal risk, but the documentation gaps and data inconsistencies prevent a higher rating.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Non-permanence risk analysis (Section 4.6) lists 'NA' for every risk field, meaning no assessment of dam failure, drought, or sedimentation risk was performed for this hydropower project.
• ⚠Eleven corrective actions were required by TÜV SÜD, including missing meter calibration certificates, missing JMRs for four months, and inconsistent emission-reduction values between the monitoring report and the ER sheet.
• ⚠Two verification reports disagree on the crediting period: one states 2006-04-01 to 2016-03-31, the other 2019-11-13 to 2026-11-12, creating ambiguity about which period the 70,035 tCO2e covers.
• ⚠The monitoring report (2009) records a grid emission factor of 0.0080317, which is a factor-of-100 decimal error relative to the 0.80317 tCO2/kWh confirmed in the verification report.

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