Dares Datça Wind Farm Project, Turkey

Audit Analysis

The Dares Datça Wind Farm is a Gold Standard wind project with VVB-confirmed additionality and no inherent reversal risk, but it is undermined by significant contradictions in emission reduction figures across documents, a weak leakage justification, and 23 outstanding corrective actions related to monitoring protocols and reporting accuracy. The project's core design is sound for a wind installation, yet the quality and consistency of its verification and monitoring documentation raise material concerns about data reliability.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Lifetime ex-ante emission reduction estimate differs by a factor of seven between the PDD (326,991 tCO2) and the monitoring report (46,713 tCO2), creating serious uncertainty about the true credit volume
• ⚠19 Corrective Action Requests and 4 Clarification Requests were issued during verification, including discrepancies between TEIAS grid protocols and project monitoring records for multiple months
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with the justification described as 'not addressed' in the most recent (2025) verification report, despite the 2023 report having stated it was 'deemed negligible'
• ⚠No new additionality assessment was conducted for the crediting period renewal validation, as noted in the verification report
• ⚠Grid emission factor contradicts between the monitoring report (0.6488 tCO2/MWh, 2020) and an appendix (0.7424 tCO2/MWh), a 14% difference that directly affects credit volume

Credit Vintages