Helanshan Phase V 40.5MW Wind-farm Project

Audit Analysis

A 40.5 MW onshore wind project in China registered under CDM (ACM0002 v17.0) with a 7-year crediting period. The project delivered approximately 67% of the pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, indicating conservative crediting. Key gaps include the absence of explicit additionality documentation in the extracted record, a contradiction in baseline methodology between the validation and monitoring reports, and missing safeguards details (FPIC, grievance mechanism).

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not stated in any extracted document, despite being a mandatory CDM requirement
• ⚠Baseline methodology is contradictory: the validation report (2017) describes a jurisdictional baseline while the monitoring report (2020) labels it 'project'
• ⚠Leakage justification is inconsistent: the validation report deems leakage negligible, but the monitoring report does not address leakage at all
• ⚠Crediting period start date differs between the monitoring report (2017-07-02) and the appendix (2017-02-07)

Credit Vintages