Hebei Zhangbei Batou Wind Farm Phase I

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind project with VVB-confirmed additionality and an appropriate grid-emission-factor baseline, but undermined by six corrective actions raised during validation, a seven-fold discrepancy in claimed emissions reductions between the PDD and validation report, and the absence of any verified monitoring-period ERR figure. The project's fundamental design (wind displacing grid electricity) carries low permanence and leakage risk, yet the data reliability issues and missing safeguards documentation limit confidence in the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven-fold discrepancy in total ERR between the PDD (1,529,269 tCO₂e) and the validation report (218,467 tCO₂e) — the basis for the difference is not explained in the extracted record
• ⚠Six corrective actions (CARs) were required during validation, including missing LoA from the Swiss DNA, incomplete project boundary, and insufficient grid emission factor parameters
• ⚠No verified ERR figure is available for the monitoring period (Aug 2011 – Mar 2012), making it impossible to confirm actual delivery against the validated claim
• ⚠Baseline method is contradictory: the monitoring report describes a 'project' baseline while the validation report describes a 'jurisdictional' baseline

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