Jacks Gully Landfill Gas Project

Jacks Gully Landfill Gas Project is an electricity generation from landfill gas project located at the Spring Farm Advanced Resource Recovery Facility (formerly Jacks Gully Landfill) near Camden, roughly 60km southwest of Sydney in New South Wales. It was registered in November 2012, and while the exact project area boundary is technically undefined in terms of specific hectares, it encompasses the active footprint of the waste management facility.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve the installation and operation of a gas collection system to capture methane generated by the decomposition of organic waste in a landfill. Under the standard requirements of this methodology, the captured methane must be combusted in an internal combustion engine or generator to produce electricity. This effectively prevents a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere while offsetting the use of fossil fuels for power generation.

The Camden and Spring Farm area was historically known for rural grazing, agriculture, orchards, and poultry farming, but the region is now largely characterized by rapid urban development and centralized waste management operations. The area experiences a moderate climate with an average annual rainfall of approximately 700-800mm. Sitting on the Cumberland Plain, the local soils are primarily composed of Wianamatta Group shales that form heavy clay and podzolic soils.

This project transitioned from a revoked legacy Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method and continues to capture and combust gas generated from both legacy and non-legacy waste. The project's methodology was varied in 2015 and again in February 2022 to align with the current 2021 Determination. Operated by Energy Developments Limited (EDL LFG (NSW) Pty Ltd), the project generates sufficient landfill gas to power multiple on-site generators, providing approximately 2.3 MW of renewable electricity capacity. Notably, a Commonwealth carbon abatement contract (CAC405488) established for the project in April 22015 was successfully completed in September 2022, having delivered over 913,500 tonnes of abatement for the Commonwealth across its contracted facilities.