Guoshuitou Diaobingshan Quanyangou Wind Power Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind power project in China using the well-established ACM0002 methodology, with a 14-year crediting period and a 2017 grid emission factor of 0.9139. The project over-delivered relative to its pro-rata ex-ante expectation during the 2019–2020 monitoring period, but several key integrity and transparency elements (additionality test type, verified ERR, FNRB) are absent from the extracted record, and four contradictions between documents create uncertainty about baseline methodology and leakage treatment.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Material finding in the monitoring report: the monitoring and calculation of EGfacility,y is not clearly demonstrated in the updated PDD (version 04), raising questions about the accuracy of the claimed 176,168 tCO₂e.
• ⚠Baseline method is stated as 'project' in the monitoring report (2022) but 'jurisdictional' in the validation report (2019); the inconsistency undermines confidence in the baseline construction.
• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not stated in any extracted document, leaving the additionality claim unverified in the available record.
• ⚠Leakage justification is inconsistent: the validation report (2019) deems leakage negligible, while the monitoring report (2022) records it as 'not addressed'.

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