Darwin Landfill Gas Project

Darwin Landfill Gas Project is an electricity generation from landfill gas project located at the Shoal Bay Waste Management Facility, approximately 13km northeast of Darwin in the Northern Territory. It was registered in August 2012 and operates across an unspecified area size.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve capturing methane emissions generated by decomposing organic waste and destroying the gas by combusting it to produce renewable electricity, or through flaring when generation is not possible.

The Shoal Bay area is heavily utilised for municipal waste resource recovery and disposal, with the surrounding landscape featuring ecologically important coastal wetlands and monsoonal eucalypt woodlands. The Darwin region experiences a tropical monsoonal climate characterized by distinct wet and dry seasons with high rainfall. Surrounding soils typically consist of estuarine hydrosols, red kandosols (lateritic soils), and coastal acid sulfate soils.

This project actively captures and combusts gas generated from both legacy and non-legacy waste. Operated by LMS Energy, the facility was a pioneering bioenergy initiative for the Territory that continues to keep harmful greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere while providing baseload renewable electricity to power thousands of local homes. The project transitioned from a revoked Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method to adapt to legislative changes, and it has successfully completed its April 2015 Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC783640) with the Clean Energy Regulator.