Hongkou 200MW Hydropower Project in Fujian Province

Audit Analysis

The Hongkou 200 MW hydropower project has a confirmed investment-test additionality and a jurisdictional grid baseline, but the available record is limited to a single 2011 validation report with no monitoring or verification data. Twelve material findings and a seven-fold discrepancy between the PDD and validation-report emission-reduction figures raise serious data-reliability concerns that cannot be resolved with the documents on file.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD claims 2,294,278 tCO₂e over the crediting period while the validation report (ERM-CVS) records only 327,754 tCO₂e — a roughly 7× discrepancy that is unexplained in the available documents.
• ⚠Twelve material findings were raised by the VVB, including incorrect 2009 baseline emission-factor data, missing financial-analysis inputs, and absent calibration/accuracy details in the monitoring plan.
• ⚠No monitoring reports, verification reports, or verified emission-reduction figures are present in the extracted record for a project whose crediting period ended in May 2018.
• ⚠Leakage is treated as negligible with a 0% deduction, yet an appendix document appears to describe a quantified leakage treatment, creating an internal inconsistency.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.