Hebei Chengde Runfeng Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind farm project with a solid combined additionality test verified by DNV and a reasonable grid-emission-factor baseline, but hampered by a baseline-method contradiction between the validation and monitoring reports, six material findings (all subsequently addressed), and a thin monitoring record covering only a single 15-month period. The project shows no reversal risk typical of avoidance-type wind credits, and leakage is reasonably deemed negligible.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method is recorded as 'project' in the monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the validation report — an unresolved contradiction that undermines confidence in the baseline design
• ⚠Six material findings were raised during validation, including a cut-in-speed parameter inconsistency between the PDD and the financial statement report, and a need to justify the electricity tariff against the highest approved Hebei Province tariffs
• ⚠Only a single monitoring period (Jan 2011 – Apr 2012) is visible in the extracted record; no subsequent monitoring reports or verified ERR figures are available
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are both unstated, leaving the double-claiming risk unassessed

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