Kardemir Bozyaka Wind Power Plant

Audit Analysis

The Kardemir Bozyaka Wind Power Plant is a Gold Standard wind project with confirmed additionality and low permanence risk, but it is undermined by an extraordinary volume of data-quality errors, calculation inconsistencies, and document contradictions that required over 50 corrective actions. The project delivered roughly 60% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, which is conservative, yet the project-specific baseline and unresolved ERR discrepancies between verification reports raise moderate over-crediting concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Over 50 corrective actions and 19 material findings across verification and monitoring reports indicate systemic data-quality and documentation errors, including incorrect energy generation calculations, inconsistent ex-ante parameters, and misstated turbine capacities.
• ⚠The ex-ante lifetime emission reduction estimate differs by roughly 24% between the PDD (244,520 tCO₂e) and the monitoring report (185,732 tCO₂e), and the verified ERR figure changed from 63,104 to 47,944 between two verification reports within the same year, raising questions about the stability of the credit quantity.
• ⚠A deviation request was submitted but not approved because the stated reason was not force majeure, and the VVB flagged that the monitoring period duration exceeded the three-year limit from the site visit.

Credit Vintages