Gansu Qilinsi 111MW Hydropower Project

Audit Analysis

A 111 MW CDM hydropower project in China with a jurisdictional grid baseline and appropriate leakage treatment, but the extracted record contains only validation-stage documents with no monitoring data, an unconfirmed additionality assessment, and a significant seven-fold discrepancy between the PDD and validation report on lifetime emissions reductions. The project's fundamental design is sound for a hydro avoidance project, but the absence of verified performance data and the ERR contradiction limit confidence in the claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven-fold discrepancy in lifetime ERR: the PDD (2019-05-20) states 1,473,724 tCO2e while the validation report (2019-05-21) states 210,532 tCO2e — a factor of ~7 difference that is unexplained in the available documents
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verified ERR figures found in the extracted record; the crediting period ended 2023-12-05 but no performance data is available
• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not stated in the extracted record, leaving the additionality assessment unverified
• ⚠Three material findings in the PDD (missing load factor, project boundary, and post-registration change summary) were noted by the VVB

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