Huadian Inner Mongolia Huitengxile 100.25MW Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A 100.25 MW onshore wind project in Inner Mongolia validated under CDM methodology ACM0002 with a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline and a combined additionality test. The project design is sound for its type, but the available record is limited to validation-stage documents with no monitoring or verification reports, leaving the actual delivery of emissions reductions unconfirmed. Two apparent contradictions in the extracted data (ERR figures and leakage treatment) are largely resolvable as differences in reporting period and document hierarchy.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No monitoring or verification reports are present in the extracted record; actual emissions reductions over the 2014–2021 crediting period are unconfirmed.
• ⚠The PDD (Oct 2013) states a lifetime ERR of 1,676,570 tCO₂ while the validation report (Nov 2013) states 239,510 tCO₂; although the ratio is consistent with an annual-vs-lifetime interpretation, the documents do not explicitly label the basis, creating ambiguity.
• ⚠Grid emission factor is drawn from 2012 data; no evidence of periodic grid-EF updates during the 7-year crediting period is available.

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