Henan Sheqi Xiawaxiang Wind Farm Phase I Project

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard wind farm project with solid additionality (combined test, VVB-confirmed) and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline reassessed in 2022. The project is significantly over-delivering relative to its pro-rata ex-ante expectation, eliminating over-crediting risk, though CORSIA/CCP eligibility is unstated and a 20% grid-EF discrepancy between the 2022 validation and verification reports warrants attention.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor differs by ~20% between the validation report (0.715375, Nov 2022) and the verification report (0.8581, Oct 2022); the lower value was privileged but the discrepancy is unexplained in the extracted record.
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are not stated in any available document, leaving dual-channel risk unassessed.
• ⚠The project had no credit issuance between 2017 and the 2022 verification cycle, raising a question about sustained project management (resolved via a closed clarification request).
• ⚠Ten contradictions were identified across documents, most explainable by different time periods, but the grid-EF and baseline-method discrepancies reduce confidence in data consistency.

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