7.5 MW Bundled Small Hydropower Project in Qiandongnan Autonomous Region, Guizhou Province, P.R. China

Audit Analysis

A 7.5 MW bundled small hydropower project in Guizhou, China, with a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline and VVB-confirmed investment additionality. The verification report identified several metering and substation-identification discrepancies that required corrective actions, and the crediting period differs between the validation and monitoring reports. Overall the project is structurally sound but carries moderate data-quality and documentation gaps.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Three metering-related material findings (wrong substation name, inability to separate grid draw for two sub-projects, meter location discrepancy) required corrective actions, introducing uncertainty in the electricity accounting underlying CER calculations.
• ⚠Crediting period is inconsistent between the validation report (2008-10-01 to 2015-10-01) and the 2012 monitoring report (2009-08-21 to 2016-08-20), creating ambiguity about the true registered period and total credit ceiling.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage, reversal-event history, or permanence mechanism is stated in any available document, leaving the permanence risk for this hydro asset unquantified.

Credit Vintages