Beijing Guanting Wind Power Project Phase II and Phase II addition

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind power project in Beijing using the well-established ACM0002 methodology with a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. The project is low-risk in technology terms, but the extracted record shows significant evidence gaps (additionality test type, monitoring period, and several MRV fields are absent) and a low extraction confidence that undermines confidence in the data. A material contradiction in the grid emission factor between the validation report and an appendix warrants caution.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor contradiction: the validation report (2017-11-16) states 0.9006 tCO2/MWh while an undated appendix lists 1.0416 tCO2/MWh — a ~15% discrepancy that could materially affect credit quantities.
• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation of additionality are not stated in the extracted record; for a CDM project this is a core requirement and its absence (even if due to extraction failure) is a significant evidence gap.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable and the completeness of the extracted data cannot be fully trusted.
• ⚠No monitoring period is stated, making it impossible to verify whether the 1,015,721 tCO2 figure represents a single verification cycle or the full crediting-period estimate.

Credit Vintages