Gansu Yumen Diwopu Phase II Wind Power Project

Audit Analysis

A VCS-registered wind power project in Gansu, China, with VVB-confirmed additionality via an investment test and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. The project carries no material findings or corrective actions, but suffers from a 0% leakage deduction with no explicit justification, absence of FPIC, and nine documented contradictions across its file. Overall a moderate-quality renewable energy credit with standard methodology but notable documentation gaps.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the verification report, despite the monitoring report claiming it was quantified — an unresolved discrepancy
• ⚠Nine contradictions across the document set, including conflicting additionality test types (investment vs combined), baseline method (jurisdictional vs project-specific), and two different total ERR figures (43,225 vs 323,130) presented as 'total' in different documents
• ⚠Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) was not conducted, and the validation report (2010) records no grievance mechanism or safeguards, contradicting the later verification report
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.9293 tCO2/MWh is drawn from 2007 data, predating the crediting period start by less than a year and the end by over a decade, with no evidence of periodic updating

Credit Vintages