DARICA-1 99 MW Hydro Power Plant Project, Turkey

Audit Analysis

The DARICA-1 hydro project has a verified additionality assessment and conservative emission reduction figures, but is undermined by the absence of a buffer pool, an unaddressed leakage justification, a baseline method contradiction between documents, and 14 corrective actions that signal significant MRV data-quality issues. The project delivered roughly 83% of its pro-rata expectation for the monitoring period, consistent with the reported 19.7% rainfall-driven production shortfall.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with the justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the 2022 verification report, while the monitoring report claims it was 'deemed negligible' — an unresolved contradiction
• ⚠14 corrective actions were raised by the verification team, including inconsistent meter serial numbers, mismatched emission-factor values between the MR and ER sheet, and inaccurate diesel-consumption monitoring
• ⚠The baseline method is recorded as 'project' in the verification report but 'jurisdictional' in the monitoring report, creating ambiguity about the baseline construction
• ⚠The grid emission factor of 0.64 tCO2/MWh is drawn from 2006 data and the baseline was last reassessed in 2008, making the baseline potentially outdated for a project whose crediting period ran to 2019

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