Akbuk Wind Farm Project, Turkey

Audit Analysis

The Akbuk Wind Farm is a long-running (since 2008) Gold Standard wind project with well-established additionality (combined test, VVB-verified) and no reversal events. However, the 2026 verification report flags 14 corrective actions related to data verification, missing supporting documents, and rounding errors, and the project under-delivered by roughly one-third relative to its ex-ante estimate. The overall picture is of a fundamentally sound renewable-energy project whose MRV data quality and documentation completeness need remediation before full confidence can be placed in the reported figures.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠14 corrective actions required in the 2026 verification report, including missing SGK service list, electricity meter documents, training records, and EPİAŞ/TEIAŞ data verification issues
• ⚠Achieved emission reduction (95,214 tCO₂) is 33.42% below the ex-ante estimate (143,015 tCO₂), and achieved generation (146,765 MWh) is well below the 220,430 MWh estimate, raising questions about the robustness of the original baseline assumptions
• ⚠Contradiction on baseline method: the 2026 verification report describes a project-specific baseline while the 2026 monitoring report references a jurisdictional baseline

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