Guangdong Huizhou LNG Power Generation Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM fossil-fuel-switch project (LNG replacing coal) in Guangdong, China, verified by CEC under methodology AM0029 v03. The project shows a reasonable structure with a quantified leakage treatment and no reversal events, but suffers from a critical gap in additionality documentation, a baseline-method contradiction between the validation and monitoring reports, and limited transparency on monitoring parameters. The ERR figures appear consistent on a per-year basis (268,330 tCO₂e/yr × 7 yr ≈ 1,878,309 tCO₂e), but the discrepancy between documents warrants caution.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not stated in any extracted document — a mandatory CDM requirement whose absence in the record is a significant evidence gap.
• ⚠Baseline method is contradictory: the validation report (Dec 2015) records a jurisdictional baseline while the monitoring report (Jan 2016) records a project-specific baseline; the methodological basis for the baseline is therefore ambiguous.
• ⚠Crediting-period start date differs between documents (Jan 2, 2016 in the monitoring report vs. Apr 22, 2016 in the validation report), creating uncertainty about the exact period over which credits are valid.

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