4K Earth Science Private Limited has been contracted by ‘Desilyon Danışmanlık Ticaret A.Ş.’ to undertake verification of the project activity “Yılmaz Wind Power Plant” in Turkiye. The verification was performed based on rules and requirements defined by GCC for the project activity.

Yilmaz Wind Power Plant was constructed by Çapar Elektrik Üretim A.Ş. with the aim of project is to produce electrical energy from the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy and supply it to the Turkish national grid.

There are 4 commissioned turbines and all are in operation phase. The project consists of 4x3.125 Mwe turbines which make the total of 12.5 Mwe. The annual electricity generation allowed for the plant as per the generation license is 50 GWh which was signed on 11/11/2011.

The baseline scenario of the project was the national grid which was mainly using thermal or fossil fuel power plants that amount of energy is displaced which results in emission reductions. The project activity will generate greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions by avoiding CO2 emission from electricity generation by fossil fuel power plants connected to Turkish National Power Grid. Total installed capacity is 12.5 Mwe. The average annual generated energy is expected to be 50,000 MWh and the project will be able to deliver a reduction in emissions of around 32,440 tCO2e (tons of carbon dioxide equivalent) annually. For the entire crediting period, 324,400 tonnes of CO2 are expected to be reduced

The project activity is likely to achieve the anticipated emission reductions stated in the PSF provided the underlying assumptions do not change. The expected emission reductions (annual average) from the project activity are estimated to be 324,400 tCO₂e/year over the 10 years crediting period starting from 24/10/2020.

4K Earth Science Private Limited has verified and hereby certifies that the GCC Project Activity “Yilmaz Wind Power Plant ”:

·        has correctly described the Project Activity in the Project Submission Form (version 4.2, dated 13/10/2023) including the applicability of the approved methodology AMS I D , version 18.0 and meets the methodology applicability conditions, is additional and is expected to achieve the forecasted real measurable and additional GHG emission reductions, complies with the monitoring methodology, has appropriately conducted local and global stakeholder consultation processes and has calculated emission reduction estimates correctly and conservatively;

·        is likely to generate GHG emission reductions amounting to the estimated 324,400 tCO_2eq over the fixed crediting period of ten years, as indicated in the PSF, which are additional to the reductions that are likely to occur in absence of the Project Activity and complies with all applicable GCC rules, including ISO 14064-2 and ISO 14064-3, and therefore requests the GCC Program to register the Project Activity  

·        is not likely to cause any net-harm to the environment and/or society and complies with the Environmental and Social Safeguards Standard, and therefore requests the GCC Program to register the Project Activity, which is likely to achieve the requirements of the Environmental No-net-harm Label (E+) and the Social No-net-harm Label (S+); and

·        is likely to contribute to the achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), comply with the Project Sustainability Standard, and contribute to achieving a total of 5 SDGs, which is likely to achieve the Platinum   SDG certification label (SDG+).

·        The Project Activity complies with all the applicable requirement of the GCC Program and ICAO’s requirements on CORSIA Emissions Unit Eligibility Criteria and CORSIA Eligible Emissions Units, as per Clarification No 1., v1.3 paragraph 23-25, and the ACCs expected to be issued during the crediting period is likely to be CORSIA eligible and can be used by International Airlines for offsetting their emissions during all phases of CORSIA and therefore requests GCC Steering Committee to append CORSIA Certification label (C+) to this project

·        is likely to contribute to CORSIA Eligible Emission Units and has CORSIA Label (C+) certification valid till 31 December 2020. A written attestation from the Host country on double counting is not required until 31 December 2020 and the project was found meeting the applicable requirements prescribed by ICAO.