Ova Wind Power Plant

Audit Analysis

The Ova Wind Power Plant is a Gold Standard wind project in Turkey with VVB-confirmed additionality and a reasonable pro-rata delivery rate (~95% of expected), but it is severely undermined by an extraordinary volume of corrective actions (over 60 items), eight material findings including calculation errors and coordinate mismatches, and multiple contradictions between the verification and monitoring reports on baseline method, leakage justification, and safeguards. The documentation record is weak, with numerous missing evidence items and internal inconsistencies that raise concerns about data reliability.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Over 60 corrective actions required across the verification report, including missing generation license, meter calibration records, QA/QC procedures, SDG records, stakeholder meeting records, and double-counting declarations
• ⚠Eight material findings reported, including EGfacility/ER calculation errors for December 2017, turbine coordinate mismatches between MR and generation license, and grid emission factor unit inconsistencies with the PDD
• ⚠Contradictory baseline method: verification report (Nov 2025) states 'project-specific' while monitoring report (Nov 2025) states 'jurisdictional'
• ⚠Contradictory leakage justification: verification report says 'quantified' while monitoring report says 'deemed negligible', yet the deduction is 0% in both
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.516 tCO2/MWh is from 2012, over a decade old at the time of the 2025 verification

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