Guohua Dongying Hekou Phase III Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind project in China with a solid combined additionality test verified by Bureau Veritas and a jurisdictional grid baseline, but the available record is limited to validation-stage documents with no monitoring or verification reports for the full 2012–2019 crediting period. A significant 7× discrepancy between the PDD and validation report emission-reduction figures was corrected before registration, and the low extraction confidence further weakens confidence in the data. Overall, the project design is sound but the evidentiary record is thin.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD (April 2012) claimed 736,631 tCO₂ while the validation report (May 2012) corrected this to 105,233 tCO₂ — a 7× over-claim that was flagged as 'not conservative' in the material findings and adjusted before registration.
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verification reports are present in the extracted record for a project whose crediting period ran from June 2012 to May 2019, leaving actual performance entirely unverified.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, and one of the seven source documents is typed as 'unknown', reducing reliability of the extracted data.
• ⚠No buffer pool, permanence mechanism, or reversal-risk assessment is documented for the project.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.