Gansu Dang River Hydropower Project

Audit Analysis

The Gansu Dang River Hydropower Project is a CDM-registered small hydro scheme with a jurisdictional baseline and combined additionality test, but the validation report identified four material findings requiring corrective action, including a crediting period that exceeded the methodology maximum and baseline emission factors inconsistent with national data. Transparency is limited by the absence of monitoring or verification reports and several key MRV parameters that are not stated in the available record. The grid emission factor contradiction between the validation report and an appendix introduces uncertainty into the credit calculation.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Four material findings in the validation report, including a crediting period of 21 years in PDD v06 exceeding the 7-year maximum allowed under ACM0002, and baseline emission factors not aligned with 2013 China DNA data
• ⚠Grid emission factor contradiction: 0.6266 tCO2/MWh in the validation report versus 0.972 in an appendix, a 55% discrepancy that affects the credit calculation
• ⚠No monitoring or verification reports found in the extracted record; the only ERR data point (141,169) appears identically as both claimed and verified, with no independent measurement evidence
• ⚠Additionality confirmation by the VVB is not explicitly stated in the extracted record despite the presence of a combined test

Credit Vintages