Planta Solar Fotovoltaica Cumayasa 1 y 2

Audit Analysis

A 5-year Gold Standard solar PV project in the Dominican Republic with VVB-confirmed additionality and no reversal events, but undermined by a project-specific baseline (contradicting the PDD's jurisdictional claim), an unaddressed leakage justification, no stated buffer pool, and multiple unresolved material findings. The verified emissions reductions track roughly 93% of the pro-rata lifetime expectation, which is reasonable, but five cross-document contradictions erode confidence in the underlying data.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the verification report, while the monitoring report claims it was quantified — an unresolved contradiction that leaves the leakage treatment unverified
• ⚠Baseline method contradicts between documents: the verification report (Jan 2025) records a project-specific baseline, while the PDD (May 2024) describes a jurisdictional baseline; the more recent VVB assessment is privileged, weakening baseline robustness
• ⚠Six material findings (CL 01–03, CAR 01–03) remain in the verification report, including missing CAPEX/O&M evidence, unclear boundary delineation, and insufficient gender-safeguard documentation
• ⚠The ex-ante lifetime ERR figure differs by a factor of five between two PDD versions (691,929 vs 3,459,625 tCO₂e), indicating a major mid-project revision that is not explained in the extracted record

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