Gansu Guazhou Qiaowan Second Phase Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM-registered wind farm in Gansu, China, using a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline (0.7674 tCO₂/kWh, 2018) with a 7-year crediting period. The project's core design is sound for a wind displacement project, but the extracted record lacks explicit additionality documentation, safeguards detail (FPIC, grievance mechanism), and any monitoring-period verification reports, leaving several key integrity and transparency questions unresolved.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not stated in any extracted document, despite being a mandatory CDM requirement; the project's CDM registration implies it passed, but the evidence is not in the available record.
• ⚠One material finding (CL01) notes that the percentage of fossil-fuel generation in the Northwest Power Grid over the prior five years was not listed in the baseline documentation, potentially weakening the grid-emission-factor basis.
• ⚠No monitoring-period verification reports appear in the evidence list; only the validation report (Feb 2020) and PDD are identified, leaving post-registration performance unverified in the available data.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.