Datang New Energy Chayouhouqi Hanwula Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind farm project in China using a standard jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline (0.8404 tCO₂/MWh, 2017) with a 7-year crediting period. The project is fundamentally sound in design—wind displacement of grid electricity carries low permanence and leakage risk—but the extracted record lacks explicit additionality confirmation, a stated monitoring period, and shows a significant discrepancy between the PDD and validation report on total emissions reductions (658,315 vs 94,045 tCO₂).

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD (Oct 2019) reports a total ERR of 658,315 tCO₂ while the validation report (Oct 2019) reports 94,045 tCO₂ — a roughly 7-fold discrepancy that, while resolved in favour of the VVB figure, raises questions about the robustness of the project's ex-ante estimates.
• ⚠No additionality test type or VVB confirmation of additionality is captured in the extracted record, leaving a critical CDM requirement unverified in the available data.
• ⚠The monitoring period is not stated in any available document, making it impossible to assess the cadence or completeness of MRV reporting.

Credit Vintages

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