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7.4 Case-study: 15 MW Wind Power Project in the State

of Karnataka is Presented to Analyze the VER Market

The case study presented here is a project by Ecolution India Pvt Ltd. The Project
was not submitted to the UNFCCC for registration to obtain CERs as it was an
ongoing project. The UNFCCC will not accept any ongoing projects for registra-
tion, due to this the project applied for registration and acquisition of VERs to
Chicago Climate Exchange and Voluntary Carbon Standards. These two standards
are the most prominent VER standards in India.
The projects activity is to generate electricity through sustainable means using
wind power resources and to utilize the generated output by selling it to the Hubli
Electricity Supply Company (HESCOM). The project supplies electricity to the
grid, which is already suffering from deficiency due to a low demand to supply ra-
tio. The project activity is located in the districts of Davangare and Gadag in the
state of Karnataka, India ( Table 7.2 ). The wind technology is provided by com-
pany RRB Energy Ltd. The project is a bundled project combining three different
wind power mills in two different districts of the state together ( Table 7.2 ).

Table 7.2. Description of location of the project

Windmill Type

State District Town/Village

Horosagara, Daginkatte and
Hosakere - 4.2 MW

1. Vestas RRB Karnataka Davangere

Unachagere, Rajur, Vadegola
and Kuntoji - 5.4 MW

2. Vestas RRB Karnataka Gadag

Unachagere, Rajur, Vadegola
and Kuntoji - 5.4 MW

3. Vestas RRB Karnataka Gadag

7.4.1 Methodology

To register this project activity under CCX - VER, the methodology followed was
for a UNFCCC approved small scale CDM project (UNFCCC 2010), which is a
small scale grid connected renewable electricity production methodology. The
methodology applies to renewable energy generation units, such as photovoltaic,
hydro, tidal/wave, wind, geothermal and renewable biomass that supply electricity
to and/or displace electricity from an electricity distribution system, that is or
would have been supplied by at least one fossil fuel fired generating unit. If the
unit added has both renewable and non-renewable components (e.g. a wind/diesel
unit), the eligibility limit of 15MW for a small- scale CDM project activity applies
only to the Renewable component. If the unit added co-fires fossil fuel, the capac-
ity of the entire unit shall not exceed the limit of 15 MW (CDM rulebook 2010;
EcoSecurities 2002 and 2003). The project activity produces renewable energy