Kale HES Hydro Power Project

Audit Analysis

The Kale HES hydro project rests on a sound methodological foundation (ACM0002, jurisdictional baseline, VVB-confirmed investment additionality), but is undermined by an unusually large volume of material findings and corrective actions spanning both the monitoring and verification reports. Data loss from the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake, missing meter calibration records, and a non-permanence section marked N/A create meaningful gaps in the evidence chain. The project is not CORSIA-eligible, which limits dual-channel risk, but the overall documentation quality and data reliability are below the standard expected for a registered VCS project.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠24+ corrective actions and 20+ material findings across the verification and validation reports, including missing leakage emission (LEy) in the reduction formula, inconsistent installed capacity values, and missing meter calibration details
• ⚠Monitoring-period invoices and spare-meter records for Nov–Dec 2019 and 2020 were lost due to the Kahramanmaraş earthquake, creating an unquantified gap in the energy-generation evidence
• ⚠The validation report (June 2025) reports a total ERR of 490,020 tCO₂e and a grid emission factor of 0.4568, while the verification report (August 2025) reports 132,330 tCO₂e and a grid EF of 0.537 — the basis for each figure is not clearly reconciled in the extracted record
• ⚠Min extraction confidence is rated low, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which limits the reliability of the structured data used for scoring

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