Fuzhou Hongmiaoling Landfill Gas to Electricity Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM landfill gas-to-electricity project in China with VVB-confirmed additionality and reasonable leakage treatment, but undermined by eight material findings related to data quality, parameter conflicts, and formula compliance. The verified reductions substantially exceed the pro-rata ex-ante expectation, suggesting conservative crediting, yet the project-specific baseline and missing FNRB/usage data limit confidence in the underlying assumptions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eight material findings in the verification report, including a parameter definition conflict (ELIMP) that led to potential miscalculation of emission reductions and a formula that initially complied with the wrong methodology version (ACM0001 v02 instead of v05).
• ⚠Contradiction in claimed ERR between two monitoring reports: 51,909 tCO2e (Feb 2011) vs 40,765 tCO2e (Oct 2011), a 21% discrepancy that undermines confidence in the project's reporting consistency.
• ⚠Grid emission factor sourced from 2004 data, which is over 7 years old at the time of the monitoring report and may not reflect current grid conditions.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage or reversal event data found in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified.

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