Gansu waste heat generation project of Lantian float-glass

Audit Analysis

A CDM waste-heat-recovery project at a float-glass plant in Gansu, China, with a VVB-verified investment additionality test and a reasonable 0% leakage assumption. However, the record is hampered by five material findings in the validation report (including an emission-factor inconsistency), a baseline-method contradiction between the PDD and the validation report, and a complete absence of verified monitoring data or verified ERR figures to cross-check the 284,150 tCO₂e lifetime claim.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The validation report flags that the emission factor applied in the PDD is inconsistent with the value issued by the DNA of China — a direct threat to the accuracy of the claimed 284,150 tCO₂e.
• ⚠Baseline method is stated as 'project-specific' in the validation report but 'jurisdictional' in the PDD, creating ambiguity about the reference case used.
• ⚠No verified ERR, monitoring period, or usage-rate data is present in the extracted record, so the lifetime claim cannot be independently cross-checked.
• ⚠The FSR underlying the IRR calculation was completed in March 2008, more than two years before the April 2010 board decision, raising data-currency concerns flagged by the VVB.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.