Kavakli Wind Power Plant

Audit Analysis

The Kavakli Wind Power Plant is a Gold Standard wind project with a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and no reversal events, but its integrity is undermined by a project-specific baseline, contradictory leakage justifications across documents, and 32 material findings including data discrepancies between meter readings and EPIAS records. The project delivered approximately 104% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, indicating no over-crediting, but the volume of documentation corrections required and medium extraction confidence limit overall confidence.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠32 material findings and 32 corrective actions identified in the verification report, including data discrepancies between official meter readings and EPIAS data (Oct 2017) and between PMUM records and monthly meter readings (Sep 2014)
• ⚠Contradictory leakage justification: the verification report states leakage was 'quantified' while the monitoring report states it was 'deemed negligible', with a 0% deduction applied
• ⚠Baseline method contradiction: verification report classifies it as 'project' while the monitoring report classifies it as 'jurisdictional'
• ⚠Grid emission factor discrepancy of ~20% between the verification report (0.6198) and the monitoring report (0.5165)
• ⚠Missing ornithology reports for bird strikes and missing supporting documents for water well donation and solid waste disposal

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