Guodian Wuqi zhouwan 1st 49.5MW Wind Power Project

Audit Analysis

A 49.5 MW onshore wind project in China registered under CDM (ACM0002 v13.0.0) with VVB-confirmed additionality via a combined test and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. The project is a straightforward avoidance-type credit with no inherent reversal risk, but several key MRV parameters (verified ERR, FNRB, usage monitoring) are absent from the extracted record, and contradictions in the baseline-method label and leakage treatment across monitoring reports introduce moderate uncertainty.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method is labelled 'project' in the 2021 monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the PDD (2012); the PDD's jurisdictional characterisation is privileged as the foundational document, but the inconsistency undermines confidence in the baseline description.
• ⚠Leakage justification is stated as 'quantified' in the 2021 monitoring report yet 'not addressed' in the 2017 monitoring report, while the deduction remains 0 % in both; the contradiction weakens the leakage narrative.
• ⚠Verified ERR, FNRB value/method, and usage-monitoring method are all absent from the extracted record, leaving the MRV chain incomplete.
• ⚠Ten material findings and ten corrective actions were raised during validation (missing LoAs, missing spreadsheets, insufficient PDD descriptions), all subsequently resolved, but the volume of initial gaps signals a weak first submission.

Credit Vintages