*Te Apiti Wind Farm

Audit Analysis

Te Apiti Wind Farm is a straightforward renewable-energy avoidance project with inherently low permanence and leakage risk, supported by a jurisdictional baseline and an investment additionality test. However, the available record consists solely of a 2003 PDD with no monitoring reports, verification reports, or verified emissions-reduction data, leaving the project's actual performance unconfirmed. The combination of a decade-old crediting period (2008–2012) and the absence of any post-implementation documentation significantly limits confidence in the claimed 980,525 ERs.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Only a single PDD (2003) is available; no monitoring reports, verification reports, or periodic reviews exist in the extracted record, making it impossible to confirm that the wind farm operated as designed during the 2008–2012 crediting period.
• ⚠The grid emission factor of 603 gCO₂/kWh (2008) is not independently cross-checked in the available documents, and no baseline reassessment date is recorded, leaving the baseline's continued validity unverified.
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are both unstated, creating an unresolved dual-channel risk for any credits still in circulation.

Credit Vintages