3.	For the benchmark selection, PP shall firstly demonstrate if there is Benchmarks supplied by relevant national authorities. Public benchmark IRR is more credible than company’s.
4.	For very very large scale hydropower project, maybe the installed capacity is greater than 300~500MW or more, it is unlikely that they will be build after CDM consideration. This kind of hydropower project can be considered as the mainstay of the grid, they have large capacity and can provide large and stable amount electricity to the client compared with other small scale hydro and wind plant; they can enhance the security of the power grid and have certain adjustable capability to balance the peak/valley load of the grid. With the development of national economy, the power needs keep increasing. Even without CDM, this kind of hydropower project will also be developed in a suitable time with suitable manner. In contrast to small scale hydro and wind and other renewable energy source, they have better capability to overcome the financial barrier, i.e. differently treated by Grid Company with different tariff policy, which will not impact on the profit/return of Grid Company as the grid company has a lot of policies to balance the loss/profit. EB shall set a cap of installed capacity for large hydropower project, or update the tool for the demonstration and assessment of additionality considering these concerns.

1) PDD claims second investment decision after changed capacity is conservative: In that case, as PP had already decided for some part capacity project, only additional 150 MW capacity should be eligible for CDM. 

During first decision, the capacity and obviously capital cost was lower, hence that is more conservative than increase project cost in second decision.

2) There is gap of more than 2 years in the prior CDM consideration and PDD web hosting. As per the guidelines on prior consideration (EB 62, Annex 13, para 5), if PDD is not webhosted within two year of prior consideration, every subsequent two years after the initial notification the project participants shall inform the UNFCCC secretariat of the progress of the project activity. CDM web site doesnt show anything on this. So DOE should check this and confirm such requirement was met.

3) For power density, PDD has to use surface area of reservoir at when full at maximum capacity. PP should not use submergence area - which is different from the required parameter to calculated power density.

4) Benchmark - whether PLR is post tax? How PP decides banchmarks in investment decision as their earlier hydro project used WACC?

5) tariff for merchant sale and JKSPDCL are not discussed in PDD (to manipulate later?).

6) Common practice analysis has to be done for country and not J&K state alone.

Is Ernst & Young the CDM consultant for this project “Ratle Hydro Electric Power Project at Drabshala, India”? Ernst & Young (EY) is the most unethical company in the accounting and advisory business. They are no less than Arthur Andersen which is closed due to malpractices but the only difference as on today is EY is not caught in such a way till to date but doing all sorts of dirty and unethical activities in their day to day services more heavily than Arthur Andersen. 
How come EY offer CDM consulting and advisory services when they are already a statutory auditor for the company or a Group of companies, more so when the company or the Group is having limited companies, and public limited companies? Why EY is taking general public to ransom? What understanding the EY is having with the promoters of the companies while making them to hire EY only as CDM consultant where as EY continues to act (in good faith?) as a statutory auditor. DOE to investigate completely this matter, seek opinion of “The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (icaiho@icai.org)” and also Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. Unless DOE does check the validity and acceptability of EY actions as per ICAI and MCA, DOE cannot proceed with CDM validation.  In case DOE BVCH SAS for some money goes ahead with the CDM validation of this project one day they have to face the music since any way EY will be exposed one day the way it happened to their old friend Arthur Andersen. BVCH SAS must be careful.  BVCH may earn few hundreds of thousands of rupees in this project but if you do not act properly now by terminating this contract or by conducting validation only after obtaining permission from ICAI and MCA, BVCH will be certainly in serious problem.   
It is high time EY must stop blackmailing corporates under the authority as statutory auditors and grab the CDM consulting business and doing all sorts of dirty tricks. How long EY wants to do this? How many more hundreds of clients they want to cheat in India? Do they think that nobody is watching this? One day EY has to answer the statutory and legal authorities for violation of statutory laws, ethics and professional integrity. EY offers services for corporate governance.  What a shame! There is no shame bigger than this unethical double game. Whom are they fooling? How long EY wants to fool around the corporates like this? Stop this EY Stop this corporate scandal. In case BVCH does not terminate this contract or conducting validation only after obtaining permission from ICAI and MCA, the matter will be certainly brought to the notice of ICAI and MCA, Government of India in which case BVCH will be certainly in serious problem.    

1.	The project is claimed to be run of river hydro project. So the calculation of reservoir is wrong. The criterion 3 is applicable only to pumped storage or accumulation hydro projects. What does reservoir refer to as per PP? 

2.	The justification of opting out alternative 3 and alternative 4 is not justified adequately. It should be based on latest published data and figures. Refer B.4. Pls. clarify.
3.	The bilateral agreements, PPA with India are the documents, DOE to check thoroughly

4.	Date of investment decision should be at the time of DPR preparation. So, the basis of the cost escalation factors at a later date for CDM consideration is not valid. Pls. clarify. Refer B5. Step 3a. (Investment barrier).

5.	How the CDM benefit will alleviate the technical barriers. As per additionality tool, if the barriers are not alleviated by CDM, then the project is not additional. 

6.	Emission factor for state is not calculated.it should be made available to DOE to clearly validate this value.  Emission factor for India is not as per “Tool for emission factor for the system”. 

7.	Electricity generated by the project, auxiliary consumption, transmission losses, transformer losses, net electricity exported to India, net electricity exported to the  grid. These parameters to be monitored continuously and to be cross checked with sale receipts. 

8.	The Meth mentions that if investment analysis option is used, apply the following: 

a.	Apply an investment comparison analysis, as per Step 3 of the .Combined tool to identify the baseline scenario and demonstrate additionality., if more than one alternative is remaining after Step 2 and if the remaining alternatives include scenarios P1 and P3;

b.	Apply a benchmark analysis, as per Step 2b of the .Tool for the demonstration and assessment of additionality. If more than one alternative is remaining after Step 2 and if the remaining alternatives include scenarios P1 and P2.

But PP failed to apply like this. Pls. clarify.

PLF should be based on EB48 Annex 11guideline which says The plant load factor provided to banks and/or equity financiers while applying the project activity for project financing, or to the government while applying the project activity for implementation approval; (b) The plant load factor determined by a third party contracted by the project participants (e.g. an engineering company); But PDD doesn’t demonstrate how PLF has been arrived at. 

9.	Whether PLF includes machine shutdown, machine availability. Whether grid availability is accounted for in the calculation of gross generation. To my surprise, critical parameter like PLF is missing from the PDD. How DOE has allowed this. 

10.	Common practice analysis should be based on EB 39 Annex 10 (Additionality tool). Each step of common practice analysis should be fulfilled as per tool.

11.	Emission reduction calculation should be based on EB 50 Annex 14 “Tool for emission factor for the electricity system.
12.	Whether only one set of main meter, check meter set is enough for three projects. The monitoring parameters need to be checked by DOE.
13.	The main meter and check meter technical parameters like accuracy level, make, etc. needs to be mentioned in the PDD. 
14.	Layout of power transmission lines from the generation to the consumer with the metering system is not shown. It should include the distance of transmission lines. DOE has to check the meters are installed to monitor electricity generated, net electricity used in Bhutan, net electricity exported to India. Pls. clarify.

15.	The status of the construction & commission of the project is not stated in the PDD.
16.	What is the basis of calculation for transmission loss, auxiliary consumption and transformer losses? What is the length of transmission line? 

1.	Is the project equipment purchased second hand equipment or sourced from cheap foreign sources? If yes, the issue must be probed by DOE since invoices will invariably be inflated and forged. Total project costs mentioned by PP will not be the same as originals. Hence no additionality. These facts must be probed in full by DOE by checking all documents and money transactions along with bank statements and certified accounts by a legally acceptable financial analyst. 

2.	From DOE side which auditor has done marketing and business development for acquiring this business of validating this project? With whom he or she was co-ordinating at PP or CER buyer? The same person who has done the marketing and business development to acquire the business do validation or participate in any manner what so ever in the validation process? One cannot do like that. It is against the accreditation rules and norms followed since ages. DOE should send auditors from different offices or countries to do this validation audit. DOE must take care of impartiality and accreditation rules. Due to the targets set by the DOE managements auditors are doing marketing and meeting clients and giving promises that the project will be taken care. Is it acceptable and fair? This must be stopped. No auditor should do marketing. Only non-auditing staff should do marketing. DOE to ensure the same please. 


3.	If applicable only: Is these machines, equipment was a part of any bundle of CDM activity envisaged and developed earlier. DOE to check the same through independent sources also. Once some bundles are non-additional and getting negative validation from a DOE, PP is rolling out the same project as an individual project which is not a CDM project at all. DOE to verify the same from independent sources and also take undertaking in the form of an affidavit from the PP’s that any misrepresentation or false statement with respect this would attract strict legal action from UNFCCC and DOE. Furthermore the registered project must be de-registered in case of any future findings contradicting the submissions made by the project owner.  



4.	DOE to ensure that the PDD values are consistent and ensure that the CDM project is a genuine project
5.	DoE to check the Detailed Project Report and Feasibility Report which is submitted to the other agencies and Banks by Project owner and ensure that the values match with the DPR/FR  submitted to DoE also. 
6.	Careful study must be done so that the DPR/FR is not in different versions made and submitted with different purposes to different agencies, which is totally unacceptable, illegal and unethical. 
7.	DPR/FR values must be probed fully. DOE must take a written undertaking from the PP/Consultant about the list of parties to whom this DPR/FR is submitted and for what purposes. Then DOE should cross check with all the parties and confirm that the same DPR/FR is submitted to all the parties correctly without any changes. DOE must not accept any reports and undertakings from PP/Consultant. DOE must make independent evaluation and use totally different parties without informing the PP or Consultant to cross check the facts. 
8.	DOE to write to the party who prepared the DPR/FR which is submitted to the banks and other agencies and the same is verified against the one submitted to the DOE by PP/Consultant. 
9.	DOE must not entertain this project any more if found the DPR/FR is tamprered with at any point in time. PP can not give different DPR’s and FR’s. They must submit only the one given to Banks and other agencies while obtaining loans and decision making time. 



10.	 How is the base line defined in this project? Is Base line hypothetically defined with no proper evidences and proper justification? In such case, DOE cannot take the base line as suggested by the PDD.  Please check that there are real emission reductions beyond the real and factual base line. It may so happen that this project qualifies for no CER’s. DOE cannot assume values and things as giving by this PP. Whatever values are considered throughout the project in all documents including the real DPR (not the one prepared for CDM, the one given to the banks and others), they must be validated, verified and double checked. Do not ask PP for DPR. Ask the parties who have been given DPR by the PP. Get directly from the bank and others by each page of the DPR and Feasibility report signed. Such document can be considered as a real DPR or FR. UNFCCC CDM process cannot be degraded by fabricating and misinterpreting the project base line and additionality.  

11.	DOE to be more careful so that this is a genuine CDM project. What is the exact project cost? The project cost is covering what? Each value considered must be validated with proof. The machinery is second hand purchased or fresh and new from an OEM? In either case DOE to check all the quotations, proposals, purchase orders, invoices, way bills, transport bills, proof of payments like bank statements. DOE to check with banks by way of written confirmation the amount transacted, to whom the money is paid, when the money is paid, is the party paid is the correct party as shown in the purchase orders. It may so happen that the values, party names, dates are fabricated and misrepresented in this project. DOE should terminate their contract for this project immediately. This is the only way out to protect the value of CDM process. If the PP is purchasing second hand or second quality equipment and inflating the purchase order values and invoices, this must be probed thoroughly and real values to taken for additionality calculation. Then I’m sure the additionality is not there at all in such a situation.
12.	Project owner should show some undertaking letter from bank manager to DoE stating that both DPR’s are same. These kinds of letters should not be accepted and entertained by DoE at face value, but must be checked independently. While collecting the DPR/FR from banks and other agencies, all DPR/FR pages should be counter signed by Banks and other agencies so that the real DPR/FR given to other parties by the PP/Consultant is same as the one submitted to DOE. 
13.	Has the PP considered the CDM revenues while envisaging the project? Without CDM the project was not viable, is it right? This project is having a debt component? Then how bankers or lenders gave the loan? Have the bankers or lenders considered the CDM revenues while agreeing to give loan to this projects? If not this project should be rejected right away by DOE by terminating the contract forthwith. If yes, where is the proof? What is the date of the evidence document from bank? Is this document printed now a days or earlier. DOE to independently check the same. If the document is  available from Bank it must be checked from all angles so that it is genuine and not forged and date changed by putting back dated. This is normally done, DOE to be aware of this please. Please check the communication the PP had during that time with banks, emails and postal receipts and the weights and dates mentioned on the receipts. Do not believe in courier bills and receipts since these can be cooked up easily. Insist on government owned postal service receipts only. If the project is fully equity project then on what basis the PP has invested full equity in to the project while considering the CDM revenue? DOE to check the same in detail and bring out the facts. Is there any past record of this PP to invest or not to invest at returns what he is talking about in this project? Proper evidences must be reviewed and digged out by the DOE and take decision on the project based on established facts. Do not ask documents from PP, DOE to collect the same from different sources to do independent evaluation. 

Do send some auditors who are not in the business development and marketing with the PP. Bureau Veritas should depute a team for any audit who is not involved in the marketing with the client. Bureau Veritas now a days is doing CDM audits in very short time and giving reports. Why and how? What has changed? Overnight have they become very knowledgeable? Same people, same systems and their attitude towards CDM validation has changed and BV auditors are giving request for registration without checking the full particulars of the project. Why the sudden change in attitude? Auditors want to milk CDM and spoil CDM system and then go for their regular inspection and ISO certification stuff when CDM dies? Because of DOE’s like this only CDM is going to dogs. Auditors like HB Muralidhara, Sanjay Patankar and other likeminded auditors in BV are going very fast on CDM projects of their choice and certifying in a great hurry. Why? Bureau Veritas management should probe this? If BV management does not take real interest and keep the house in order, UNFCCC should check this issue. Why BV’s all old projects which are published for comments in 2007 and 2008 are getting request for registration all of a sudden? What clients have shown and given off late which they have not done in the last 3 years or so? What is this? What is happening? What kind of TR is being done? Is TR done just for the sake of doing or is TR raising any true and genuine issues? HB Muralidhara and Sanjay Patankar should not be used for any large scale projects as LA as their independence is definitely questionable. 
They should be used only for TR and some “independent and new to consultants and large group companies” auditors to be used as LA’s. At least both of them should be sent to Inspection to save BV’s reputation on CDM business. BV auditors relationship with some of the big group of companies in India & other countries and some consultants is questionable and brings disrepute to CDM process. Names need not be written, everyone knows including BV’s management. If no credible corrective actions are initiated immediately by BV’s management then we have no other option except to come out openly with names of companies and consultants with whom BV is involved in wrong activities. 
How come HB Muralidhara and Sanjay Patankar do audits for clients and consultants when both are doing marketing and seeking business from market? Is this allowed in any third party certification business? Why BV is flouting rules, for disgrace? Why BV’s auditors themselves are giving suggestions how to close CAR’s and CL’s for CDM projects? Why they are advising corrective actions? Is it acceptable? BV’s management and UNFCCC should look into this matter and correct the things immediately in the interest of CDM process. Flavio Gomes is fit for counting revenues and does not have a proper oversight on his own business operations area, which is proven effectively now. It’s time to set the business in order. Copy marked to UNFCCC. 

Is Ernst & Young the CDM consultant for this CDM project? Ernst & Young (EY) is the most unethical company in the accounting and advisory business. They are no less than Arthur Andersen which is closed due to malpractices but the only difference as on today is EY is not yet caught in such a way till to date but doing all sorts of dirty and unethical activities in their day to day services more heavily than Arthur Andersen. 
How come EY offer CDM consulting and advisory services when they are already a statutory auditor for the company or a Group of companies, more so when the company or the Group is having limited companies, and public limited companies? Why EY is taking general public to ransom? What understanding the EY is having with the promoters of the companies while making them to hire EY only as CDM consultant where as EY continues to act (in good faith?) as a statutory auditor. DOE to investigate completely this matter, seek opinion of “The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (icaiho@icai.org)” and also Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. Unless DOE does check the validity and acceptability of EY actions as per ICAI and MCA, DOE cannot proceed with CDM validation.  In case CDM DOE for some money goes ahead with the CDM validation of this project one day they have to face the music since any way EY will be exposed one day the way it happened to their old friend Arthur Andersen. DOE must be careful.  DOE may earn few hundreds of thousands of rupees in this project but if you do not act properly now by terminating this contract or by conducting validation only after obtaining permission from ICAI and MCA, DOE will be certainly in serious problem.   
It is high time EY must stop blackmailing corporates under the authority as statutory auditors and grab the CDM consulting business and doing all sorts of dirty tricks. How long EY wants to do this? How many more hundreds of clients they want to cheat in India? Do they think that nobody is watching this? One day EY has to answer the statutory and legal authorities for violation of statutory laws, ethics and professional integrity. EY offers services for corporate governance.  What a shame! There is no shame bigger than this unethical double game. Whom are they fooling? How long EY wants to fool around the corporates like this? Stop this EY Stop this corporate scandal. In case DOE does not terminate this contract or conducting validation only after obtaining permission from ICAI and MCA, the matter will be certainly brought to the notice of ICAI and MCA, Government of India in which case DOE will be certainly in serious problem.    

1)	DOE to ensure that the PDD values are consistent and ensure that the CDM project is a genuine project.
2)	DoE to check the Detailed Project Report and Feasibility Report which is submitted to the other agencies and Banks by Project owner and ensure that the values match with the DPR/FR  submitted to DoE also. 
3)	Careful study must be done so that the DPR/FR is not in different versions made and submitted with different purposes to different agencies, which is totally unacceptable, illegal and unethical. 
4)	Project owner should show some undertaking letter from bank manager to DoE stating that both DPR’s are same. These kinds of letters should not be accepted and entertained by DoE at face value, but must be checked independently. While collecting the DPR/FR from banks and other agencies, all DPR/FR pages should be counter signed by Banks and other agencies so that the real DPR/FR given to other parties by the PP/Consultant is same as the one submitted to DOE. 
5)	DPR/FR values must be probed fully. DOE must take a written undertaking from the PP/Consultant about the list of parties to whom this DPR/FR is submitted and for what purposes. Then DOE should cross check with all the parties and confirm that the same DPR/FR is submitted to all the parties correctly without any changes. DOE must not accept any reports and undertakings from PP/Consultant. DOE must make independent evaluation and use totally different parties without informing the PP or Consultant to cross check the facts. 
6)	DOE to write to the party who prepared the DPR/FR which is submitted to the banks and other agencies and the same is verified against the one submitted to the DOE by PP/Consultant. 
7)	DOE must not entertain this project any more if found the DPR/FR is tamprered with at any point in time. PP can not give different DPR’s and FR’s. They must submit only the one given to Banks and other agencies while obtaining loans and decision making time. 

8)	Has the PP considered the CDM revenues while envisaging the project? Without CDM the project was not viable, is it right? This project is having a debt component? Then how bankers or lenders gave the loan? Have the bankers or lenders considered the CDM revenues while agreeing to give loan to this projects? If not this project should be rejected right away by DOE by terminating the contract forthwith. If yes, where is the proof? What is the date of the evidence document from bank? Is this document printed now a days or earlier. DOE to independently check the same. If the document is  available from Bank it must be checked from all angles so that it is genuine and not forged and date changed by putting back dated. This is normally done, DOE to be aware of this please. Please check the communication the PP had during that time with banks, emails and postal receipts and the weights and dates mentioned on the receipts. Do not believe in courier bills and receipts since these can be cooked up easily. Insist on government owned postal service receipts only. If the project is fully equity project then on what basis the PP has invested full equity in to the project while considering the CDM revenue? DOE to check the same in detail and bring out the facts. Is there any past record of this PP to invest or not to invest at returns what he is talking about in this project? Proper evidences must be reviewed and digged out by the DOE and take decision on the project based on established facts. Do not ask documents from PP, DOE to collect the same from different sources to do independent evaluation. 

9)	Is the project equipment purchased second hand equipment or sourced from cheap foreign sources? If yes, the issue must be probed by DOE since invoices will invariably be inflated and forged. Total project costs mentioned by PP will not be the same as originals. Hence no additionality. These facts must be probed in full by DOE by checking all documents and money transactions along with bank statements and certified accounts by a legally acceptable financial analyst. 

10)	From DOE side which auditor has done marketing and business development for acquiring this business of validating this project? With whom he or she was co-ordinating at PP or CER buyer? The same person who has done the marketing and business development to acquire the business do validation or participate in any manner what so ever in the validation process? One cannot do like that. It is against the accreditation rules and norms followed since ages. DOE should send auditors from different offices or countries to do this validation audit. DOE must take care of impartiality and accreditation rules. Due to the targets set by the DOE managements auditors are doing marketing and meeting clients and giving promises that the project will be taken care. Is it acceptable and fair? This must be stopped. No auditor should do marketing. Only non-auditing staff should do marketing. DOE to ensure the same please. 


11)	If applicable only: Is these machines, equipment was a part of any bundle of CDM activity envisaged and developed earlier. DOE to check the same through independent sources also. Once some bundles are non-additional and getting negative validation from a DOE, PP is rolling out the same project as an individual project which is not a CDM project at all. DOE to verify the same from independent sources and also take undertaking in the form of an affidavit from the PP’s that any misrepresentation or false statement with respect this would attract strict legal action from UNFCCC and DOE. Furthermore the registered project must be de-registered in case of any future findings contradicting the submissions made by the project owner.  

12)	DOE to be more careful so that this is a genuine CDM project. What is the exact project cost? The project cost is covering what? Each value considered must be validated with proof. The machinery is second hand purchased or fresh and new from an OEM? In either case DOE to check all the quotations, proposals, purchase orders, invoices, way bills, transport bills, proof of payments like bank statements. DOE to check with banks by way of written confirmation the amount transacted, to whom the money is paid, when the money is paid, is the party paid is the correct party as shown in the purchase orders. It may so happen that the values, party names, dates are fabricated and misrepresented in this project. DOE should terminate their contract for this project immediately. This is the only way out to protect the value of CDM process. If the PP is purchasing second hand or second quality equipment and inflating the purchase order values and invoices, this must be probed thoroughly and real values to taken for additionality calculation. Then I’m sure the additionality is not there at all in such a situation.

13)	 How is the base line defined in this project? Is Base line hypothetically defined with no proper evidences and proper justification? In such case, DOE cannot take the base line as suggested by the PDD.  Please check that there are real emission reductions beyond the real and factual base line. It may so happen that this project qualifies for no CER’s. DOE cannot assume values and things as giving by this PP. Whatever values are considered throughout the project in all documents including the real DPR (not the one prepared for CDM, the one given to the banks and others), they must be validated, verified and double checked. Do not ask PP for DPR. Ask the parties who have been given DPR by the PP. Get directly from the bank and others by each page of the DPR and Feasibility report signed. Such document can be considered as a real DPR or FR. UNFCCC CDM process cannot be degraded by fabricating and misinterpreting the project base line and additionality.