Guajira I Wind Farm

Audit Analysis

The Guajira I Wind Farm is a straightforward renewable-energy project with a verified investment-test additionality and a jurisdictional grid baseline, but its documentation record is marred by 16 material findings (including calculation errors in the emissions spreadsheet and PDD deficiencies) and a low extraction confidence rating. The project over-delivered relative to its ex-ante estimate in the first monitoring year, which is reassuring for claim safety, yet the contradictory leakage justification and the absence of FNRB, CORSIA, and CCP data leave meaningful evidence gaps.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Sixteen material findings in the verification report, including a calculation error in the emissions-reduction spreadsheet (redundant subtraction of grid consumption) and multiple PDD deficiencies, all requiring corrective action
• ⚠Internal contradiction within the same verification report: leakage is described as both 'quantified' and 'deemed negligible' while the deduction is 0%
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.477 tCO2/MWh is from 2018, more than six years before the verification report date

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