Guohua Guyuan Xiaoerhao Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind farm project in China with a confirmed investment-test additionality and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline, but undermined by four corrective actions at validation (incorrect grid-EF vintage, inconsistent benchmark values, formula errors) and a notable discrepancy in the claimed ERR between the PDD and validation report. The project type (wind, avoidance) carries low permanence risk, and leakage is quantified at 0% with justification, but several key MRV and safeguards fields are absent from the extracted record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Four corrective actions were required at validation, including an incorrect data vintage for the grid emission factor and formula errors in the PDD, indicating the initial documentation contained material errors.
• ⚠The claimed ERR differs by a factor of ~7 between the PDD (710,521 tCO₂e) and the validation report (101,503 tCO₂e); while this is likely a lifetime-vs-annual mismatch, the inconsistency was not explicitly reconciled in the documents.
• ⚠Baseline method is described as 'project' in the monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the validation report, creating ambiguity about the actual baseline approach.

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