CGN Inner Mongolia Zhurihe Phase II Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind farm project in Inner Mongolia using the standard ACM0002 methodology with a jurisdictional baseline and a 2017 grid emission factor of 0.8405. The project's core design elements (baseline, leakage treatment, methodology) are sound, but the available documentation is limited to a validation report and PDD with no monitoring or verification data, and the additionality assessment — a mandatory CDM criterion — could not be confirmed in the extracted record. The ERR figures in the PDD and validation report differ by a factor of seven, which is consistent with a lifetime-versus-annual basis but is not explicitly clarified in the documents.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not found in the extracted record, despite being a mandatory CDM criterion; the low extraction confidence may explain this gap but it cannot be verified
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verified ERR data are available; the project's actual performance relative to its claimed 105,544 tCO₂e (first period) or 738,808 tCO₂e (lifetime) cannot be assessed
• ⚠The PDD states a total of 738,808 tCO₂e while the validation report states 105,544 tCO₂e; although the 7× ratio matches the 7-year crediting period, neither document explicitly clarifies the reporting basis
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set means key fields (FNRB, usage rate, monitoring method, CORSIA/CCP status) are unconfirmed

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