Wollert Landfill Gas Project

Wollert Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas to electricity project located at Wollert, approximately 25km north of the Melbourne CBD in Victoria. It was registered in November 2012 and covers an unspecified area within the active footprint of the Wollert Resource Park. The surrounding regional land use was historically agricultural grazing, but the area is now characterised by a mix of peri-urban transition, expanding residential development, and major industrial resource recovery operations. The local environment features a temperate climate with moderate rainfall, situated on the Victorian Volcanic Plains which are known for their heavy, cracking basalt clay soils.

Landfill gas projects operating under the Electricity Generation from Landfill Gas methodology involve capturing methane gas emitted from decomposing organic waste. Standard requirements include the installation and operation of a gas collection system to extract methane from both legacy and non-legacy waste. This captured gas is then combusted via flares or specialised engine generators to produce renewable electricity, successfully preventing a highly potent greenhouse gas from venting into the atmosphere.

The proponent, LMS Energy, operates the Wollert Renewable Energy Hub at the site, which has a documented generation capacity of 7.7 MW. The project is notable for having transitioned through three consecutive methodology determinations since its inception (in 2012, 2015, and 2021). In September 2013, the Clean Energy Regulator required LMS Energy to relinquish 22,941 Kyoto ACCUs related to this project, which were subsequently fulfilled using units from their Awaba Landfill Gas Project. Additionally, the project secured an Emissions Reduction Fund contract (CAC783510) in April 2015 which has since been completed, and the site itself is widely recognised for hosting Australia's first solar-on-landfill installation.