Urla Wind Power Project, Turkey

Audit Analysis

The Urla Wind Power Project is a VCS-registered wind avoidance project with VVB-confirmed additionality and matching claimed/verified ERRs, but is undermined by 26 corrective actions, material findings questioning stakeholder identification and personnel overlap with a sister project, a project-specific baseline, and a grid emission factor frozen at 2011 values. The low extraction confidence and multiple inter-document contradictions further erode confidence in the data record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠26 corrective actions required in the 2024 verification report, including inconsistencies in data/parameters, project name errors, and missing generation licence documentation
• ⚠Material finding: the same three individuals serve as Plant Manager, Plant Chief, and Electricity Trading Manager across two separate power plants (projects 1438 and 1439), raising questions about organisational independence and the validity of stakeholder interviews
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.5833 tCO2/MWh is from 2011 and has not been updated, potentially overestimating reductions if Turkey's grid has decarbonised
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage stated and reversal events explicitly 'not addressed' in the verification report, despite the project being within its crediting period
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable or incomplete

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