Heilongjiang Beiantun 49.5MW Wind Power Project

Audit Analysis

A 49.5 MW onshore wind project in Heilongjiang, China, registered under CDM with a jurisdictional baseline and a 7-year crediting period. The project is fundamentally low-risk in design (wind displacing grid electricity, negligible leakage), but the extracted record lacks an explicit additionality assessment and contains a significant discrepancy between the PDD's ex-ante estimate (602,511 tCO₂e) and the validation report's validated figure (86,073 tCO₂e), creating uncertainty about the true credit volume.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠ERR contradiction: the PDD (Oct 2019) states a total of 602,511 tCO₂e while the validation report (Oct 2019) validates only 86,073 tCO₂e — a 7× difference that is not explained in the extracted record
• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not found in the extracted record, a mandatory element under CDM rules
• ⚠Material finding CAR-1: the monitoring plan in PDD v04 was inconsistent with the actual situation and the approved revised monitoring plan, requiring a PDD revision
• ⚠One of the four evidence documents is of unknown type, reducing confidence in the completeness of the documentation set

Credit Vintages