Hami Tianrun Shisanjianfang Wind Farm Phase II 49.5MW Wind Project

Audit Analysis

A 49.5 MW CDM wind project in China with VVB-confirmed additionality and a jurisdictional grid baseline, but undermined by 11 material findings at validation (including calculation errors in the emission factor and facility energy), contradictory leakage and baseline characterisations across documents, and absent safeguards documentation (no FPIC or grievance mechanism). Pro-rata delivery of ~82% of the expected credits for the elapsed monitoring period is reasonable for wind variability, but the documentation quality issues and missing safeguards lower confidence in the overall claim.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eleven material findings at validation, including calculation errors in the facility energy (CAR B6) and emission factor sheet (CAR B7), raise concerns about the accuracy of the ex-ante credit estimate
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the validation report (2012) states 'deemed negligible' while the monitoring report (2015) records 'not addressed', leaving the 0% deduction without a consistent, documented rationale
• ⚠Baseline method is characterised as 'jurisdictional' in the PDD but 'project' in the monitoring report, creating ambiguity about whether the grid emission factor or a project-specific baseline applies
• ⚠No FPIC, grievance mechanism, or stakeholder identification process is documented, despite the validation finding (CL E1) that stakeholder identification was not demonstrated
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.89635 is dated 2011, two years before the crediting period start in January 2013, with no evidence of an updated factor

Credit Vintages