Guodian Weihai Shanmayu Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind farm project in China with VVB-confirmed additionality and a reasonable leakage treatment, but severely limited by the absence of any monitoring or verification data, a seven-fold discrepancy in claimed emissions reductions between the PDD and the validation report, and five unresolved corrective actions from the validation stage. The project's crediting period ended in 2019, and no post-validation evidence of actual performance has been found in the available documents.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven-fold discrepancy in total emissions reductions: the PDD claims 627,375 tCO₂e while the validation report (VVB assessment) states 89,625 tCO₂e — a factor-of-7 gap that undermines confidence in the project's quantification
• ⚠Baseline method is contradictory: the validation report classifies it as project-specific while the PDD describes it as jurisdictional, creating ambiguity about the actual baseline construction
• ⚠No monitoring reports, verification reports, or performance data are present in the extracted record despite the crediting period having ended in October 2019
• ⚠Five corrective actions (CARs) were raised at validation, including missing Letters of Agreement, incomplete monitoring plan documentation, and methodology citation errors — none confirmed as resolved

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.