Anhua Bundled Small Hydropower Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM small-hydropower bundle in China with a solid investment-test additionality assessment verified by DNV, but the project's integrity is undermined by a severe over-claim in the original PDD (ERR reduced by roughly 86% after corrective actions removed the Shankou sub-project) and a grid-emission-factor discrepancy between the validation report and an appendix. No monitoring or verification data is available in the extracted record, leaving the actual delivery of credits unverified.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Original PDD claimed 149,720 tCO2e/yr; after CAR 4 removed the Shankou project the validated figure dropped to 21,389 tCO2e/yr — an 86% reduction indicating the initial bundle was substantially over-credited
• ⚠Grid emission factor contradiction: validation report uses 0.85285 (2009) while an appendix cites 1.1255; the higher value would inflate claimed reductions by ~32%
• ⚠Four corrective actions were required at validation, including missing PLF calculation, unjustified auxiliary power losses, and an IRR benchmark breach for one sub-project
• ⚠No monitoring or verification reports are present in the extracted record; actual credit delivery over the 2011–2018 crediting period is unverified
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.