4K Earth Science Private Limited has been contracted to undertake verification of the project activity “Wind Energy Project in Kutchh, Gujarat" in India. The verification was performed based on rules and requirements defined by GCC for the project activity.

The project involves installation of wind turbines with an installed capacity of 250 MW. This wind project is located in Dayapar Town in Kutchh Gujarat. PPA has already been taken and a tariff of INR 2.82 per kWh The project activity is a greenfield plant i.e there was no renewable energy plant existing prior to the implementation of this project. The project activity is wind power project which is being implemented in Kutchh, Gujarat of India, that supplies power to the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), an intermediary in procuring power in-line with the Guidelines for Tariff based Competitive bidding process for the procurement of power, from grid connected project. The power generated from the project activity is fed into the respective substation and Indian National Grid, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emission reduction into the atmosphere. The amount of power generated is 711,750 MWh/year producing  6,622,834 tCO₂ for the entire crediting period of 10 years.

4K Earth Science Private Limited has verified and hereby certifies that the GCC Project Activity “Wind Energy Project in Kutchh, Gujarat”:

·        has correctly described the Project Activity in the Project Submission Form (version 4.0, dated 07/09/2024) including the applicability of the approved methodology GCCM001, version 4.0 and meets the methodology applicability conditions, is additional and is expected to achieve the forecasted real measurable and additional GHG emission reductions, complies with the monitoring methodology, has appropriately conducted local and global stakeholder consultation processes and has calculated emission reduction estimates correctly and conservatively;

·        is likely to generate GHG emission reductions amounting to the estimated 6,622,834 tCO_2eq over the fixed crediting period of ten years, as indicated in the PSF, which are additional to the reductions that are likely to occur in absence of the Project Activity and complies with all applicable GCC rules, including ISO 14064-2 and ISO 14064-3, and therefore requests the GCC Program to register the Project Activity  

·        is not likely to cause any net-harm to the environment and/or society and complies with the Environmental and Social Safeguards Standard, and therefore requests the GCC Program to register the Project Activity, which is likely to achieve the requirements of the Environmental No-net-harm Label (E+) and the Social No-net-harm Label (S+); and

·        is likely to contribute to the achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), comply with the Project Sustainability Standard, and contribute to achieving a total of 3 SDGs, which is likely to achieve the Silver SDG certification label (SDG+).

·        The Project Activity complies with all the applicable requirement of the GCC Program and ICAO’s requirements on CORSIA Emissions Unit Eligibility Criteria and CORSIA Eligible Emissions Units, as per Clarification No 1., v1.3 paragraph 23-25, and the ACCs expected to be issued during the crediting period is likely to be CORSIA eligible and can be used by International Airlines for offsetting their emissions during all phases of CORSIA and therefore requests GCC Steering Committee to append CORSIA Certification label (C+) to this project

·        is likely to contribute to CORSIA Eligible Emission Units and has CORSIA Label (C+) certification valid till 31 December 2020. A written attestation from the Host country on double counting is not required until 31 December 2020 and the project was found meeting the applicable requirements prescribed by ICAO.