CECIC HKE Zhangbei Lvnaobao Wind Power Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind power project in China using the well-established ACM0002 methodology with a jurisdictional baseline. The project is inherently low-risk in terms of permanence and leakage, but the extracted record shows significant gaps in additionality documentation and three material contradictions between the validation report and its appendix, including a seven-fold discrepancy in the estimated emission reductions. Only the ex-ante validation report is available; no verification (ex-post) reports were found.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Three contradictions between the validation report and its appendix, including a seven-fold difference in total ERR (1,523,893 vs 217,699) and a 16% difference in the grid emission factor (0.9007 vs 1.0416)
• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not stated in the extracted record, leaving the additionality basis unverified
• ⚠No verification (ex-post) reports found in the evidence set; only the 2018 validation report is available
• ⚠A corrective action was required to update the PDD to the latest template and methodology versions, indicating the PDD was not fully current at validation

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