ORTAMANDIRA WPP

Audit Analysis

The Ortamandira Wind Power Plant is a Gold Standard wind avoidance project with confirmed additionality and a recent 2024 verification, but it is undermined by a very high volume of corrective actions (18 CARs, 29 open items), nine cross-document contradictions, and a project-specific baseline. The verified emissions reductions (10,931 tCO₂e) represent roughly half the pro-rata expectation for the monitoring year, which is conservative but raises questions about the accuracy of the ex-ante estimate.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠18 Corrective Action Requests and 29 corrective action items across the verification cycle indicate systemic data-quality and reporting deficiencies
• ⚠Two verification reports (Aug 2024 vs Sep 2024) report materially different verified ERR figures (41,835 vs 10,931 tCO₂e) and different crediting periods (2022–2029 vs 2015–2022), creating uncertainty about which figure is authoritative
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the 2024 verification report labels it 'quantified' while the 2020 PDD states 'deemed negligible,' yet the actual deduction is 0%
• ⚠Baseline method is contradictory: the 2024 verification report classifies it as 'project' while the 2020 PDD classifies it as 'jurisdictional'
• ⚠Crediting period dates conflict between two verification reports issued weeks apart (2015–2022 vs 2022–2029), making it unclear which period the 2024 monitoring falls under

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