Guohua Guyuan Pandaogou Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind farm project in China with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test, a standard grid-emission-factor baseline, and no inherent permanence risk. Six minor corrective actions (typos, outdated tool version, initially missing letters of agreement) were all resolved, and no material compliance issues remain. Several transparency fields (verified ERR, FNRB, usage monitoring) are absent from the extracted record, and contradictions between the PDD, validation report, and monitoring report on baseline characterisation and leakage justification warrant caution.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method is characterised as 'project' in the monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the PDD — the PDD/validation-report interpretation (jurisdictional grid baseline) is consistent with ACM0002 and is privileged, but the inconsistency reduces confidence in data quality.
• ⚠Leakage justification is stated as 'quantified' in the monitoring report (2013) but 'deemed negligible' in the validation report (2012); the 0% deduction is reasonable for a grid-connected wind project, yet the inconsistent language across documents is a documentation weakness.
• ⚠Total ERR verified for the monitoring period is not stated in the extracted record; only the claimed figure of 38,278 tCO₂e (monitoring report) and the lifetime ex-ante estimate of 100,008 tCO₂e (validation report) are available, preventing an independent cross-check.
• ⚠Grid emission factor is from 2010 (0.9309 tCO₂/MWh); no evidence of a more recent or updated factor was found in the available documents.

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