Household biogas project in Xinhua County, Loudi City, Hunan Province

Audit Analysis

A CDM household biogas project in Hunan Province with a solid combined additionality test verified by DNV, but limited by the absence of any monitoring reports, a thin 0% leakage justification, and a 10× discrepancy in the claimed ERR between the PDD and the validation report. The project is at validation stage only, with no post-implementation data available to confirm delivery.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD states a total ERR of 523,990 tCO₂e while the validation report (later, VVB-verified) states 52,399 tCO₂e — a 10× discrepancy that, even if a typographical error, signals a data-quality weakness in the project documentation.
• ⚠No buffer pool, reversal-risk analysis, or permanence safeguard is documented; for a 10-year crediting period (2011–2021) this leaves no explicit protection against credit reversal.
• ⚠Leakage is set at 0% on the basis of a 'deemed negligible' justification with no quantified analysis, and a second (unidentified) source appears to describe the leakage treatment as 'quantified' — an unresolved contradiction.
• ⚠No monitoring reports, monitoring period, or verified usage-rate data are present in the extracted record, so actual delivery cannot be assessed.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.