Hebei Chongli Honghualiang 49.5MW Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A 49.5 MW onshore wind project in Hebei, China, registered under CDM with a VVB-verified combined additionality test and a standard grid-emission-factor baseline (ACM0002). The project is an avoidance-type credit with no inherent reversal risk, and the 0% leakage deduction is reasonable for wind. However, a contradiction in the baseline method label between the validation and monitoring reports, the absence of verified ERR figures in the extracted record, and low document extraction confidence introduce moderate uncertainty.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method is labelled 'project' in the 2012 monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the 2011 validation report — a direct contradiction that undermines confidence in the baseline characterisation.
• ⚠Verified ERR figures are not present in the extracted record; only the claimed lifetime total of 102,399 tCO₂e is available, preventing an independent over- or under-delivery check.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence across the 11 source documents is rated low, meaning key data points may have been missed or misread.
• ⚠Leakage justification is inconsistent: the 2011 validation report describes it as 'deemed negligible' while the 2018 monitoring report calls it 'quantified', yet the deduction is 0% in both cases.

Credit Vintages