South Cardup Landfill Gas Project

South Cardup Landfill Gas Project is an electricity generation from landfill gas project located at the South Cardup Landfill, approximately 40 kilometres southeast of the Perth CBD in Western Australia. It was registered in August 2012 and covers an unknown area within the physical boundaries of the landfill site.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve installing a network of extraction wells to capture methane-rich biogas generated by decomposing organic waste. Standard requirements for this methodology dictate that the captured methane must be combusted in a generator to produce renewable electricity, preventing this potent greenhouse gas from simply venting into the atmosphere. Projects must accurately meter both the volume of methane destroyed and the electricity exported to the grid to correctly calculate carbon abatement.

The South Cardup area sits along the western edge of the Yilgarn Block on the Darling Scarp, near the town of Byford. Local land use is a mix of expanding peri-urban residential developments, semi-rural agriculture, conservation reserves, and historical extractive industries. The region experiences a Mediterranean climate with moderate to high rainfall, typically ranging from 800mm to over 1000mm annually depending on scarp elevation. Soils in this transitional zone feature a mix of Quaternary coastal sands, lateritic gravels, clays, and shale.

This project transitioned from a revoked legacy method and continues to capture and combust gas generated from both legacy and non-legacy waste. The landfill itself was originally established inside a former shale pit and eventually stopped receiving incoming waste, reaching operational completion in late 2016. The carbon project successfully completed a government carbon abatement contract (CAC143500) in October 2021. More recently, in May 2026, the official project proponent was updated from LMS Energy Pty Ltd to VELMS JOINT VENTURE PTY LTD.