Dahao Wind Power Project

Audit Analysis

The Dahao Wind Power Project is a standard VCS wind energy project with VVB-confirmed additionality and no material findings, but it is undermined by a 31% discrepancy in verified emissions reductions between two monitoring reports issued two months apart, inconsistent leakage and baseline characterisations across documents, and the absence of FPIC. The project delivered roughly 333% of the pro-rata PDD expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, indicating a very conservative baseline estimate, yet the data reliability issues temper confidence in the reported figures.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified ERR dropped from 174,895 tCO2e (monitoring report, Sep 2022) to 120,247 tCO2e (monitoring report, Nov 2022) — a 31% reduction between two reports covering the same period, raising serious data-reliability concerns
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the verification report (Nov 2022) states leakage was 'not addressed' while the monitoring report (same date) calls it 'deemed negligible', with a 0% deduction in both cases
• ⚠FPIC was not conducted for a project operating in China, and benefit-sharing was not described in the original 2011 verification report
• ⚠Grid emission factor is from 2008, which is at the very start of the crediting period and may not reflect updated national grid averages

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