Diqing Prefecture Niru River Muxingtu Hydropower Station Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM hydropower project in China with a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline and a combined additionality test, but the record is thin: no monitoring report, one material finding on an outdated emission factor, and a significant discrepancy between the PDD and validation report on total emissions reductions that is likely explained by a 7-year vs. 1-year basis difference. The project is broadly sound in design but lacks the monitoring and verification depth to score highly on transparency and documentation.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Material finding in the validation report: the grid emission factor applied (0.3949, 2017) was not the latest version available at the time of validation (August 2019), and a corrective action was required to update it in the PDD.
• ⚠The PDD (July 2019) states a total emissions reduction of 1,428,308 tCO₂e while the validation report (August 2019) confirms only 204,044 tCO₂e — a 7:1 ratio that likely reflects a full-crediting-period vs. first-year basis, but the documents do not explicitly reconcile the two figures.
• ⚠No monitoring report or monitoring period data was found in the extracted record, leaving the project's actual performance unverified beyond the initial validation.

Credit Vintages

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