Ningxia Xiangshan Wind Farm Project - CORSIA Eligible

Audit Analysis

This is a registered wind project with VVB-verified additionality and a recent verification report, which supports moderate integrity. However, the record shows unresolved documentation issues, a leakage treatment contradiction, and no verified emissions-claim totals in the extracted facts, which limits confidence in the claimed climate benefit.

Project Description

Ningxia Xiangshan Wind farm Project (hereafter referred to as the Project) is located in Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China. The project owner is Ningxia Zhongwei Aluminum New Energy Co., Ltd. The project started construction on 01/11/2016 and starts commercial operation on 15/04/2017 and fully operation on 20/07/2017. The proposed project has a total installed capacity of 397.5MW consisting of 265 wind turbines with unit capacity of 1,500kW. The expected annual power delivered to the grid is 948,633.8 MWh. The power generated will be delivered to the Northwest Power Grid (NWPG) via Ningxia Power Grid. The scenario existing prior to the start of the implementation of the project activity is the same as the baseline scenario as identified in section 2.3, i.e. electricity would have otherwise been generated by the operation of power plants connected to NWPG and by the addition of new generation sources of NWPG. When the proposed project is put into operation, the power generated will substitute a part of power supply in NWPG which is dominated by fuel-fired power plants and thus reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission through avoiding CO2 emissions produced by NWPG. The estimated annual average emission reduction is 727,982 tCO2e. The VCS crediting period of the Project is from 15/04/2017 to 14/04/2027, totally 10 years. The estimated emission reduction during this period is 7,279,820 tCO2e. The emission reduction during this monitoring period from 15/04/2017 to 28/02/2019 is 1,535,574 tCO2e. The proposed project will contribute to sustainable development mainly by: Reducing the emission of CO2 and other pollutants compared with fuel-fired power plant; Creating local employment opportunities during the construction (more than 200 people) and operation (200 people) of the proposed project and improving the living standard of local people; With the help of the road, which was constructed due to the proposed project, agricul

Red Flags

• ⚠ The verification report identified two corrective action requests, including an IRR inconsistency and a monitoring plan not aligned with ACM0002.
• ⚠ Leakage treatment is inconsistent across extracted records, and the project is marked CORSIA-ineligible in the available data.

Credit Vintages

Cosa migliorerebbe questo punteggio

• Provide a fully reconciled monitoring package with the CARs closed, including the corrected IRR basis and an ACM0002-compliant monitoring plan.
• Publish verified ERR totals, leakage rationale, and a clear reconciliation of the contradictory leakage and benefit-sharing statements.

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