Hebei Shangyi Qijiashan Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind farm project with VVB-confirmed additionality and a jurisdictional baseline, but undermined by eight corrective actions, five material findings, and four cross-document contradictions. The project is conservative in its claims (verified ERR exceeds claimed ERR), yet the 2006 grid emission factor and inconsistent leakage treatment across documents introduce moderate over-crediting risk. Documentation is adequate in volume but weak in internal consistency.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eight corrective actions (CARs) were required by the VVB, including missing Letters of Acceptance from both China's and the UK's DNAs, indicating significant procedural gaps at verification time
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 1.0548 tCO2/MWh is drawn from 2006 data, nearly seven years before the monitoring period, raising the risk of over-estimating baseline emissions as China's grid decarbonised
• ⚠The verification report is dated 2013-01-11, which falls within the stated monitoring period (2012-05-01 to 2013-04-30), creating a sequencing anomaly that undermines confidence in the verification timeline
• ⚠Crediting period differs between the PDD (2009-10-01 to 2016-10-01) and the verification report (2010-08-06 to 2017-08-05), with no documented explanation for the shift

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