Dongfang Minsheng Balikun Santanghu Phase IV 49.5 MW Wind Power Project

Audit Analysis

A standard 49.5 MW onshore wind project in China validated by DNV under CDM methodology ACM0002, with a combined additionality test and jurisdictional grid baseline. The project carries low inherent permanence risk as an avoidance-type wind installation, but the available record contains no monitoring or verification data, and two document-level discrepancies (leakage treatment and ERR magnitude) require reconciliation. Overall a credible but data-thin project file.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No monitoring reports or verified ERR figures are present in the extracted record; the crediting period (2014–2020) has ended without visible verification data.
• ⚠The PDD states a total ERR of 706,251 tCO₂e while the validation report states 100,893 tCO₂e; although the ratio (≈7×) is consistent with a 7-year crediting period, the discrepancy was not explicitly reconciled in the documents.
• ⚠Leakage treatment is described as 'deemed negligible' in the validation report but as 'quantified' in an earlier appendix, creating ambiguity about whether a quantitative leakage analysis was actually performed.
• ⚠No buffer pool, permanence mechanism, or reversal-risk mitigation is documented, despite the absence of a formal buffer being less critical for wind.

Credit Vintages

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