Guohua Zhucheng Wind Power Project Phase IV

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind power project in China with a solid combined additionality test verified by Bureau Veritas and a jurisdictional baseline, but significant data gaps including no verification report, no buffer pool documentation, and a major discrepancy between the PDD's claimed emissions reductions (642,796 tCO2e) and the validated figure (91,828 tCO2e). The project is inherently low-risk on permanence as a wind avoidance project, but the absence of CORSIA/CCP clarity and the unresolved leakage-justification contradiction temper confidence.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Massive ERR discrepancy: the PDD claims 642,796 tCO2e while the validation report validates only 91,828 tCO2e — a roughly 7-fold difference that, although resolved in favour of the lower (conservative) figure, signals weak initial project design documentation
• ⚠No verification report data is available (total verified ERR is not stated), so actual delivery against the validated baseline cannot be assessed
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory across documents: the validation report states 'deemed negligible' while an appendix dated 2012-08-30 references a 'quantified' approach

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