Zeytineli Wind Power Project, Turkey

Audit Analysis

The Zeytineli Wind Power Project is a Gold Standard wind energy project with VVB-confirmed additionality and no carbon-stock reversal risk, but it carries a notable documentation quality burden (30 corrective action requests) and a pending forward action on carbon-revenue materiality. Multiple contradictions across documents—particularly on the baseline method, grid emission factor, and lifetime ERR—reduce confidence in the data record. The project delivered roughly 102% of its pro-rata expectation for the 2024 monitoring year, indicating no material over-crediting.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠30 corrective action requests were issued during verification (PDD compliance, turbine description, grid EF, stakeholder engagement, bird monitoring, SDG tool), indicating significant documentation and design-quality gaps that had to be remediated before closure.
• ⚠A forward action (FAR#01) remains open requiring the project to demonstrate the materiality of carbon revenue to project sustainability at the next issuance, raising a residual additionality question.
• ⚠Seven contradictions were identified across documents, including a 34% gap in the lifetime ex-ante ERR (723,170 vs 473,230 tCO₂) and a conflicting baseline method (project-specific vs jurisdictional), which undermines data reliability.
• ⚠Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) was not conducted, despite the project's presence in a local community in Turkey.

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