Hebei Qiuxian Biomass Power Plant Project

Audit Analysis

The Hebei Qiuxian Biomass Power Plant is a CDM-registered biomass energy project with a solid investment-test additionality assessment confirmed by TÜV Rheinland, but the available record contains no monitoring report or verified emission reductions, leaving the project's actual performance unverified. The project-specific baseline and the absence of any permanence or buffer mechanism introduce moderate integrity risk, while the 0% leakage deduction is reasonable for a biomass power substitution. Overall, the project is methodologically sound at validation but lacks the post-validation evidence needed to confirm its claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No monitoring report or verified emission reduction figures are present in the extracted record; the project's actual performance over its 2013–2019 crediting period is unconfirmed.
• ⚠Baseline is project-specific rather than jurisdictional, which is less conservative and more susceptible to methodological bias.
• ⚠No buffer pool, permanence mechanism, or reversal-risk assessment is documented, despite the project having completed its crediting period.
• ⚠Four contradictions between the validation report, PDD, and appendix (leakage treatment, additionality test type, ERR figures, baseline method) indicate internal document inconsistencies that were not fully harmonised.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.