Soma Wind Power Plant

Audit Analysis

The Soma Wind Power Plant is a Gold Standard wind project in Turkey with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a recent baseline reassessment (2022). However, the project carries notable gaps: a 0% leakage deduction with no documented justification, no stated buffer pool, and a project-specific (rather than jurisdictional) baseline. The verified ERR exceeds the pro-rata ex-ante expectation, indicating conservative initial estimates, but multiple contradictions across documents and a high volume of corrective actions during verification temper confidence in data reliability.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the most recent verification report (2026-02-26), despite the earlier verification report (2025-09-27) describing it as 'quantified' — a direct contradiction that undermines confidence in the leakage treatment.
• ⚠42 Corrective Action Requests were issued during the verification process (all closed before report issuance), and 8 CARs plus 53 Clarification Requests during validation — an unusually high volume suggesting significant documentation or methodology issues that required remediation.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, and reversal events are recorded as 'not addressed' in the verification report, leaving permanence risk unquantified despite the project being a generation (avoidance) type.
• ⚠Baseline method is contradictory: the verification report (2026-02-26) records a project-specific baseline while the monitoring report (2025-09-15) records a jurisdictional baseline — the higher-priority verification report is privileged, but the discrepancy is unexplained.

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