Huadian Hebei Guyuan 100.5MW Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A 100.5 MW onshore wind project under CDM with VVB-confirmed additionality and a standard grid-emission-factor baseline, but undermined by multiple material findings, a 2008 grid emission factor that has not been updated, and three contradictions between the validation and monitoring reports. The project is inherently low-risk in terms of permanence (avoidance-type), yet the documentation quality and data currency raise meaningful concerns about the robustness of the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor of 1.0342 tCO2/MWh is based on 2008 data and has not been updated, potentially overstating or understating credits relative to current grid conditions
• ⚠Seven corrective/clarification requests (CLs) and two corrective actions (CARs) were raised by the VVB, including errors in the additionality calculation steps and incomplete monitoring documentation
• ⚠Three contradictions between the validation report (Jan 2011) and monitoring report (Oct 2011) on leakage justification, baseline method, and ERR figures indicate inconsistent project documentation
• ⚠No verification report appears in the evidence document list; only a validation report and a single six-month monitoring report are available
• ⚠All available monitoring data is from 2011, making the project's current performance and continued eligibility unverifiable from the extracted record

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.