Heilongjiang Hulin Shiqingshan 1st Phase Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind farm project in China with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a standard grid-emission-factor baseline. The project is low-risk in nature (avoidance of grid electricity), but several documentation inconsistencies—particularly around the leakage justification, baseline method labeling, and the relationship between the PDD and validation-report ERR figures—reduce confidence in the data record. No material compliance failures were found, and all five minor findings were resolved without corrective actions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage justification is inconsistent: the validation report (2011) states leakage was 'deemed negligible' while the monitoring report (2012) states it was 'quantified'—the basis for the 0% deduction is unclear
• ⚠Total ERR figures differ by a factor of ~7 between the PDD (721,490 tCO₂e) and the validation report (103,070 tCO₂e); while this likely reflects a lifetime vs. first-year distinction, the documents do not explicitly reconcile the two
• ⚠Baseline method is labeled 'project' in the monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the PDD, creating ambiguity about whether a project-specific or grid-level baseline was applied
• ⚠Crediting-period start date differs between the validation report (Oct 1, 2011) and the monitoring report (Aug 11, 2011), despite a material finding confirming the date was 'corrected to Oct 1st 2011'

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