Kemerburgaz wind farm project

Audit Analysis

The Kemerburgaz wind farm is a 24 MW Gold Standard project in Turkey with a barrier-based additionality test and direct grid monitoring, but the most recent verification report (2015) does not confirm additionality by the VVB, and the project carries 27 outstanding corrective actions. Emission reductions for the 2013 monitoring period (26,938 tCO2) are broadly consistent with the annual estimate (~30,133 tCO2), though a lifetime ex-ante figure of 1,027,181 tCO2 is internally inconsistent with the annual and 7-year totals. Several contradictions across documents—particularly on additionality verification, leakage treatment, and the grid emission factor—reduce confidence in the data record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Additionality verification status contradicts between the 2013 and 2015 verification reports; the more recent 2015 report does not confirm VVB verification of the barrier test
• ⚠27 corrective actions remain outstanding, spanning meter-reading procedures, soil-test frequency, noise-study methodology, and missing PDD sections (baseline study sheet, start-date justification, operational-lifetime rationale)
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.5474 tCO2/MWh is drawn from 2007 data, more than 8 years before the 2015 verification, risking overstatement of reductions
• ⚠Lifetime ex-ante ERR of 1,027,181 tCO2 is roughly five times the internally consistent 7-year total of ~210,930 tCO2 (30,133 × 7), suggesting a data-extraction or reporting error

Credit Vintages