Wollert Landfill Gas Project

Wollert Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas capture and electricity generation project located at Wollert, approximately 25km north of Melbourne's central business district in Victoria. It was registered in November 2012 and covers an unknown area size. The surrounding northern urban fringe region historically supported pastoral agriculture and grazing, though it is increasingly characterised by urban development, quarrying, and extensive waste management facilities.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve capturing methane gas emitted from decomposing organic waste in landfills and combusting it in an engine or turbine to generate electricity. This process destroys the methane, a potent greenhouse gas, converting it into less harmful carbon dioxide while producing renewable energy. The Wollert project activities specifically involve the continuing operation of a landfill gas collection system processing both legacy and non-legacy waste.

The Wollert area experiences a temperate climate with moderate annual rainfall. Situated on the Victorian volcanic plains, the local soils are predominantly heavy basalt-derived cracking clays (Vertosols) and duplex soils (such as Sodosols) known for poor drainage and seasonal waterlogging.

This project transitioned from an earlier revoked methodology and has seen multiple method variations since its inception, moving to the 2015 Landfill Gas method and subsequently to the 2021 Electricity Generation method. In September 2013, the Clean Energy Regulator issued a notice requiring the proponent, LMS Energy Pty Ltd, to relinquish 22,941 Kyoto ACCUs related to this project, which were ultimately relinquished from the proponent's Awaba Landfill Gas project instead. The Wollert project remains a highly productive ACCU generator; according to market data, it bagged a massive single issuance of 170,498 ACCUs in September 2025, the largest single project issuance that month. ACCUs generated from this specific facility have been purchased and surrendered by institutions such as the University of Melbourne to officially offset their operational carbon emissions.