Brooklyn Landfill Gas Project

Brooklyn Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas electricity generation project located at Brooklyn, an industrial precinct roughly 10 kilometres west of the Melbourne CBD in Victoria. It was registered in December 2012 and covers an unspecified area within a historical landfill and resource recovery site.

Projects operating under the Electricity Generation from Landfill Gas methodology involve the continuing operation of a gas collection system. The primary activity captures methane gas, generated by the decomposition of both legacy and non-legacy waste at the landfill, and combusts it to produce electricity. This prevents highly potent greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere while concurrently generating renewable energy.

The Brooklyn area is part of Melbourne's western suburbs, situated on the Victorian Volcanic Plain. The region experiences a temperate climate with moderate, lower-level rainfall due to a local rain shadow effect, and the soils are predominantly heavy, basalt-derived clays. General land use in the immediate vicinity is heavily industrial, historically utilized for large-scale waste management and resource recovery.

This project transitioned from a revoked Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method and operates a power facility with a 2.8 MW generation capacity. It was contracted by the Commonwealth in April 2015 alongside other EDL LFG (VIC) Pty Ltd sites, successfully delivering over 913,000 tonnes of contracted abatement before completing its requirements (Contract CAC405488) in September 2022. The Brooklyn project itself has been issued over 437,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) since it began. On March 31, 2025, the proponent was updated to Brooklyn Hub Pty Ltd as trustee for the Brooklyn Hub Trust.