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 project captures methane generated by the decomposition of both legacy and non-legacy waste at the landfill and combusts it to produce electricity, preventing the potent greenhouse gas from venting into the atmosphere.

The Brooklyn area is a major industrial hub known for resource recovery, commercial waste management, and former quarry operations, sitting alongside residential zones. The local climate is temperate with relatively low rainfall, averaging around 400-500mm annually. Natural soils in this region are characteristically heavy basalt clays belonging to the Victorian Volcanic Plains, though the project area itself has been heavily modified by decades of landfilling and industrial use.

This project has a long history in Victoria's renewable energy landscape, transitioning through various revoked Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) methodologies with variations in 2015 and 2022. It successfully delivered on a Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC405488) that concluded in 2022. Recently, in March 2025, the participant name was updated from EDL LFG (VIC) Pty Ltd to Brooklyn Hub Pty Ltd as trustee for the Brooklyn Hub Trust. The site, alongside other major legacy landfills, has also been referenced in academic assessments by the Australian National University regarding the integrity, additionality, and historical baselines of Australia's landfill gas abatement strategies.