Fujian Shouning Xiadongxi 25MW Hydropower Project

Audit Analysis

A 25 MW small-scale hydropower project in China displacing grid electricity, validated under CDM with a jurisdictional baseline and VVB-confirmed investment additionality test. The project is inherently low-risk in terms of permanence (avoidance-type), but the validation report flagged 11 corrective actions including IRR calculation errors and an incomplete common-practice analysis, which weaken confidence in the additionality case. Verified emission reductions for the monitoring period are not stated in the extracted record, limiting the ability to confirm delivery against expectations.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eleven corrective actions were required at validation, including IRR calculation inconsistencies between the spreadsheet and PDD (CAR4) and an incomplete list of similar projects in the common-practice analysis (CAR5), undermining the robustness of the additionality case.
• ⚠The baseline calculation was not updated with the latest 2006 statistics at the time of validation (CAR6), and the grid emission factor used is from 2005, raising questions about whether the baseline reflects the most current grid mix.
• ⚠Verified emission reductions for the monitoring period (Sep–Dec 2012) are not stated in the extracted record, preventing a direct delivery check.
• ⚠Two contradictions exist in the extracted data: the claimed ERR differs between two monitoring reports (15,372 vs 75,759), and the crediting period differs between the PDD and the later monitoring report.

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