Cañada Honda 1, 2 and 3 Solar Photovoltaic power plants

Audit Analysis

A CDM solar PV project in Argentina with a VVB-verified combined additionality test and a jurisdictional baseline, but undermined by a seven-fold discrepancy between the PDD's claimed emissions reductions (85,005 tCO₂e) and the validation report's validated figure (12,143 tCO₂e), five material findings requiring correction, and multiple monitoring parameters left unstated in the available record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD (2012-12-12) claims 85,005 tCO₂e in total emissions reductions while the validation report (2012-12-18) validates only 12,143 tCO₂e — a roughly seven-fold reduction that signals a fundamental error in the project proponent's original calculation.
• ⚠Five material findings were logged during validation, including a change from mobile to fixed solar panels at the Cañada 3 plant, revised commissioning dates for Cañada 1 and 2, corrected project coordinates, and a changed grid emission factor, indicating the PDD contained multiple factual inaccuracies.
• ⚠No monitoring period, FNRB method, usage monitoring method, or buffer pool percentage is stated in the extracted record, leaving the MRV chain incomplete.
• ⚠The grid emission factor of 0.6776 tCO₂/MWh is anchored to 2010, and no baseline reassessment date is recorded, so it is unclear whether the factor was updated for the full 2013–2019 crediting period.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.