# How long is the crediting period for a CCTS offset project in India?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/ccts-offset-crediting-period-length

You choose one of two options in the project design document: a fixed crediting period of ten years, or a renewable period of five years that can be renewed twice, for fifteen years in all. The period starts on the registration date or the project start date, whichever is later.

## The two options

- Fixed: ten years, no renewal.
- Renewable: five years at a time, with at most two renewals, so fifteen years in total.
- Each renewal is validated by an accredited agency and processed like a registration, with a revised PDD in track-change mode and the registration fee slabs.

## Rules that tie to the period

- Validation must be completed within two years of the project start date.
- Issuance requests for a crediting period must be filed within two years after that period ends, or credits for it are no longer issued.
- A project cannot be registered again once its final crediting period has expired.
- Monitored data must be kept electronically for two years after the crediting period or the last issuance, whichever is later.

## How to choose

A renewable period suits equipment that will run well beyond five years, but each renewal re-tests additionality against the rules then in force. A fixed period gives certainty for ten years with no re-test.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible keeps fuel and electricity invoices as dated, fingerprinted monthly records, the consumption data a project's monitoring report and its verifier will ask to trace.

- [CCTS offset registration steps](https://senseible.earth/answers/ccts-offset-project-registration-steps)
- [Deadline to claim CCTS credits](https://senseible.earth/answers/ccts-offset-issuance-two-year-deadline)
- [CCTS project start date rule](https://senseible.earth/answers/ccts-offset-project-start-date-rule)

Sources: [BEE, Detailed Procedure for Offset Mechanism under CCTS, Version 1.0 (effective 27 March 2025)](https://beeindia.gov.in/WriteReadData/RTF1984/RTF-PDF-dd26de202535b101_1776055896.pdf)

Last reviewed 2026-10-23. Section B4.10 and A8 of the scanned procedure, read on 23 October 2026.