Belen Wind Power Plant

Audit Analysis

The Belen Wind Power Plant is a Gold Standard wind project in Turkey with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline reassessed in 2024. The claimed and verified emission reductions match exactly at 62,436 tCO₂e for the first monitoring period, and safeguards (FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing) are documented. However, the leakage justification is marked as not addressed, reversal events are not explicitly discussed, the extraction confidence is low, and 15 corrective action requests were raised during verification (all resolved), indicating meaningful documentation quality issues.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the 2025 verification report, while an earlier 2021 report described it as 'quantified' — the more recent document is privileged but the gap in explicit justification remains
• ⚠15 Corrective Action Requests and 6 Clarification Requests were issued during verification (all closed), including errors in baseline emission calculation, net electricity generation values, and project start date — indicating significant MRV documentation weaknesses
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of the extracted data
• ⚠Reversal events are recorded as 'not addressed' in the 2025 verification report, though wind is an avoidance project with inherently low reversal risk
• ⚠One Forward Action Request remains open and must be checked at the next verification

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