Beijing Yanqing Low Wind-speed Pilot Windpower Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind project with VVB-confirmed additionality and a jurisdictional baseline, but the record is thin on monitoring data, contains a material finding about invalid project participants, and shows a 16% discrepancy in the grid emission factor between the validation report and an appendix. The absence of any verified emission reduction figures and the low extraction confidence limit confidence in the project's actual performance.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor contradiction: the validation report uses 0.9006 tCO2/MWh while an appendix references 1.0416 tCO2/MWh — a ~16% difference that could inflate claimed credits if the higher value was applied.
• ⚠Material finding in the validation report: invalid project participants were listed in the renewed PDD and had to be removed, indicating a governance lapse at the time of validation.
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verification reports were found in the extracted record, leaving the 138,250 tCO2 claimed lifetime ERR entirely unverified against actual delivery.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of the extracted data.

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