Hanergy Pizhou Solar PV Power Co., Ltd 30MW PV Power Station Project

Audit Analysis

A 30 MW solar PV project in Pizhou, China, registered under CDM with a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and a standard grid-emission-factor baseline. The project is fundamentally sound as an avoidance-type renewable energy credit, but data reliability is undermined by three cross-document contradictions (baseline method, leakage justification, and ERR figures) and a corrective action on common-practice demonstration. Several key fields (verified ERR, buffer pool, FPIC, grievance mechanism) are absent from the extracted record, limiting full assurance.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method is characterised as 'project' in the 2016 monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the 2012 validation report — an inconsistency that undermines confidence in the baseline definition
• ⚠One Corrective Action Request was issued for inadequate common-practice demonstration, requiring the project to apply the CDM 'Guidelines on common practice' v02.0
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the validation report (2012) deems leakage negligible while the monitoring report (2016) states it was quantified, yet the deduction is 0% in both cases
• ⚠Total ERR figures differ substantially between documents (92,940 in the monitoring report vs 215,010 in the validation report); while likely reflecting different time bases, the discrepancy is not explicitly reconciled in the available record

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