Baji River Stage I 10MW Run-of-river Hydropower Project

Audit Analysis

A 10 MW run-of-river hydro project under CDM with a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline and a reasonable 0% leakage assumption, but the available record lacks any monitoring or verification data, the additionality test is not explicitly documented, and a seven-fold discrepancy between the PDD and validation report on total emissions reductions raises material data-reliability concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven-fold discrepancy in total ERR: the PDD (Aug 2015) states 204,813 tCO₂ while the validation report (Oct 2015) states 29,259 tCO₂; the cause of the gap is unexplained in the extracted record.
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verification reports are present in the evidence set; the project's actual performance over its 7-year crediting period (2015–2022) is entirely unverified in the available documents.
• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not stated in the extracted record, leaving a core CDM requirement unconfirmed.
• ⚠No FPIC, grievance mechanism, or benefit-sharing detail beyond a general flag is documented.

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