Akbuk II Wind Farm Project, Turkey

Audit Analysis

The Akbuk II Wind Farm is a Gold Standard wind project with VVB-confirmed additionality and a reasonable 0% leakage deduction, but it is undermined by eight inter-document contradictions (baseline method, crediting period, FPIC status, grid emission factor, and others) that erode confidence in the data record. The verified ERR exceeds the PDD ex-ante estimate, which is positive for claim safety but suggests the original projection was imprecise. No buffer pool is stated and reversal risk is explicitly not addressed, leaving a gap in permanence assurance.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Crediting period is stated as 2017–2022 in the verification report but 2018–2028 in the monitoring report — a 6-year discrepancy that affects the pro-rata ERR calculation and the project's current validity status.
• ⚠Baseline method is described as 'project' in the verification report (2025) but 'jurisdictional' in the monitoring report (2023); for a wind project the baseline should be the grid emission factor, so the 'project' label is inconsistent with standard practice.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, and reversal events are explicitly marked as 'not addressed', leaving permanence risk unquantified.
• ⚠FPIC is recorded as conducted in the 2025 verification report but as not conducted in the 2023 PDD — a material inconsistency in a core safeguard.
• ⚠One Forward Action Request from the 2025 validation remains open and is deferred to the initial verification of the renewed project activity.

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