GOLD STANDARD LOCAL STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION REPORT OF HASANBEYLİ WIND POWER PLANT, TURKEY Local Stakeholder Meeting held on 24.02.2012 in Sarayova Village of Hasanbeyli District of Osmaniye Province, Turkey. CONTENTS A. Project Description 1. Project eligibility under Gold Standard 2. Current project status B. Design of Stakeholder Consultation Process 1. Description of physical meeting(s) i. Agenda ii. Non-technical summary iii. Invitation tracking table iv. Text of individual invitations v. Text of public invitations 2. Description of other consultation methods used C. Consultation Process 1. Participants’ in physical meeting(s) i. List ii. Evaluation forms 2. Pictures from physical meeting(s) 3. Outcome of consultation process i. Minutes of physical meeting(s) ii. Minutes of other consultations iii. Assessment of all comments iv. Revisit sustainable development assessment v. Summary of changes to project design based on comments D. Sustainable Development Assessment 1. Own sustainable development assessment i. ‘Do no harm’ assessment ii. Sustainable development matrix 2. Stakeholders blind sustainable development matrix 3. Consolidated sustainable development matrix E. Discussion on Sustainability Monitoring Plan F. Description of Stakeholder Feedback Round Annex 1. Local Announcement Annex 2. Newspaper Announcement Annex 3. Participation List Annex 4. Original feedback forms Gold Standard Local Stakeholder Consultation Report of Hasanbeyli WPP SECTION A. PROJECT DESCRIPTION A. 1. Project eligibility under the Gold Standard Hasanbeyli Wind Power Plant is eligible under the Gold Standard due to following conditions: 1- Hasanbeyli WPP was considered to have 50 MW capacity, which necessitate the project to be considered large scale project under rule of UNFCCC and be eligible under the Gold Standard. 2- Although Turkey has recently ratified Kyoto Protocol, she does not have any emission caps and established DNA to provide letter of approval for VERs. Hence the project is to be evaluated as VER. 3- Hasanbeyli WPP is a renewable energy project 4- Hasanbeyli WPP reduces CO2. 5- Hasanbeyli WPP does not receive ODA. 6- Hasanbeyli WPP was not previously announced to be going ahead without the revenues from carbon credits. 7- Hasanbeyli WPP does not claim Green or White Certificates, or equivalents. A. 2. Current project status Hasanbeyli WPP is in the early stage of development. The project has 50 MW (20 x 2.5 MW) capacity licence from EMRA (Electricity Market Regulatory Authority) which is issued in November 2011. For the project there are no real key project cycle stages yet as equipment procurement, construction, commissioning. SECTION B. DESIGN OF STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION PROCESS B. 1. Design of physical meeting(s) i. Agenda The following agenda was presented during the meeting - Screening of construction of one of wind power project before the meeting - Opening of the meeting - Explanation of the project - Questions for clarification about the project - Blind SD exercise - Discussion on monitoring SD - Discussion of continuous input mechanism selection - Closure of the meeting Gold Standard Passport version 2.1 July 2009 2 Gold Standard Local Stakeholder Consultation Report of Hasanbeyli WPP ii. Non-technical summary CO2 Emission Reductions by Grid-Connected Electricity Generation from Renewable Sources: Hasanbeyli Wind Power Project Local Stakeholder Consultation Meeting Sarayova, 24.02.2012 Eksim Enerji A.Ş. (Eksim) plans to invest into new wind power plant to generate electricity and feed it into the Turkish grid. The wind power plant is planned to be built close to Sarayova village of Hasanbeyli district in the province of Osmaniye in Turkey. The project consists 20 turbines with 2.5 MW rated power for each. Having 50 MW installed power in total, the project will generate around 150 GWh electricity annually. Comparing with baseline situation for electricity system of Turkey, this amount of electricity generation will lead around 100.000 tonnes carbondioxide emission reduction per year. In addition to the CO2, the project will reduce SOx and NOx emissions which arise from electricity generation from mainly coal power plants. The project licence has been granted in November2011 from EMRA. Environmental Impact Assessment studies have completed positively and with this, the critical permissions to start project activity has been completed. Installation of the turbines is expected to start at the end of April 2012 and the expected commissioning date of the project is the beginning of 2013. The closest settlement to the project area is Sarayova village which is 1 km away to the project area. Only small part of the project area will be actually used by the roads and turbines, the remaining areas will be left to usage of the villagers as it is before the implementation of the project activity. The project will create temporary jobs during construction and permanent jobs during operation. In both cases, the project developer will prefer to employ the local people if the competency required for the related job is met. In addition to the employment, the project will have contribution to the local economy with subcontracts and procurement. At the meeting in Sarayova, the plan to build the wind power project will be presented to the public for the first time. The purpose of the meeting is to inform public and stakeholders about the plan and present and discuss social and environmental impacts of the project. The following pages show a checklist that shall be used for discussing and evaluating the expected social and environmental impacts together with the meeting’s participants. Please provide positive/negative/neutral evaluation of the given indicators. Please discuss further the given points and provide explanations. For any questions and comments concerning the proposed project, please contact: Bahadır Uyanık Eskim Enerji A.Ş Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Cad. No:34, Altunizade, 34662, Üsküdar/İstanbul/Türkiye Tel: (+90)-216-5442400 Fax: (+90)-216-5442418 E-mail: [email protected] iii. Invitation tracking table Table 1: Invitation tracking table Category Organisation (if Name of invitee Way of Date of Confirmation Gold Standard Passport version 2.1 July 2009 3 Gold Standard Local Stakeholder Consultation Report of Hasanbeyli WPP Code relevant) invitation invitation received? Y/N A Municipality of Mayor: Hasan Fax 06.02.2012 Y Hasanbeyli District Çiçek A Sarayova Village Head of the Phone call 06.02.2012 Y Village: Muzaffer Perçem B Environment and Director: Abdullah Fax Message 06.02.2012 Y Forestry Karadana Directorate of Osmaniye City B Environmental M.Ersin Balcıoğlu Fax Message 06.02.2012 Y Planning and Environment Impact Analysis Directorate of Osmaniye City B Municipality of Governor: Fax Message 06.02.2012 Y Osmaniye City Cellalettin Cerrah D Osmaniye Çevre Fax Message 06.02.2012 Y Koruma Derneği D Kuş Araştırmaları Fax 06.02.2012 Y Derneği (Bird Surveys Society) D TEMA Foundation Hacı Poyraz Fax 06.02.2012 Y (The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats) D Turkish Woman Fax 06.02.2012 Y Association Adana Branch E Gold Standard Bahar Ubay E-mail 06.02.2012 Y Local Expert F WWF Turkey Director Akın E-mail 06.02.2012 Y Öngör F Greenpeace Hilal Atici E-mail 06.02.2012 Y Akdeniz F REEEP International E-mail 19.02.2012 Y Secretariat F HELIO E-mail 19.02.2012 Y International Gold Standard Passport version 2.1 July 2009 4 Gold Standard Local Stakeholder Consultation Report of Hasanbeyli WPP F Mercy Corps E-mail 19.02.2012 Y As it is presented in table 1, invitation process for local stakeholder meeting was followed and 20 associations/governmental offices were invited with invitation letters or by calling. Apart from this kind of invitation other stakeholders were invited by local announcements such as announcement hanged on school and announcement in newspaper. All possible stakeholders were tried to be contacted via different kinds of communication ways such as sending letters to the invitees and local announcements. After sending letters to stakeholder, telephone calls were done to confirm receipt of invitation letters. Although all invitees respond positively to the project, many of them did not attend to the stakeholder meeting. Some reasons for non presence of stakeholders are: lack of personnel that can attend to the meeting and lack of interest in project activity. iv. Text of individual invitations To Whom It May Concerns, Ankara, 02.02.2012 Subject: Hasanbeyli RES 50 MW WPP Local Stakeholder Consultation Meeting Eskim Enerji A.Ş. (Eskim) is developing a wind power project near Sarayova Village in Hasanbeyli District of Osmaniye province, Turkey. While there is positive evaluation of Environment and Forestry Directorate of Osmaniye Province on the licensed project, work on technical feasibility of the project continues. With this project, environmental sound and climate friendly electricity production will be feed it into the Turkish grid. The work on realizing this project as emission reduction project within Gold Standard Organisation’s framework has been initiated. Project owner will gain additional income for the generation and trading of certificates attesting emission reductions achieved by the project of Verified Emission Reductions (VER). This income will make the project economically viable while at the same time creating experiences for Hasanbeyli to invest for emission reduction projects. The Gold Standard Scheme sets high demands on