Huadian Sichuan Shangtongba Hydropower Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM hydropower project in Sichuan, China, displacing grid electricity with a jurisdictional baseline and a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test. The project is an avoidance-type credit with no inherent reversal risk, and the 0% leakage deduction is reasonable for grid displacement. However, the available record lacks any monitoring or verification data, and several key operational parameters remain unstated, limiting confidence in the ongoing performance claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No monitoring report or verified ERR figure is present in the extracted record; the only ERR data are the claimed annual (840,465 tCO₂e) and lifetime (5,883,255 tCO₂e) figures from the validation and PDD documents.
• ⚠The grid emission factor of 0.7707 tCO₂/MWh is anchored to 2010 data; no updated or reassessed grid factor is documented for the full 2014–2021 crediting period.
• ⚠Two corrective actions (Letters of Approval from the Chinese and Dutch DNAs) were still open at the time of the validation report, indicating the approval chain was not fully closed at validation.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.