South Cardup Landfill Gas Project

South Cardup Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas capture and electricity generation project located at South Cardup, approximately 40km southeast of Perth in Western Australia. It was registered in August 2012 and covers the operational footprint of the South Cardup Landfill.

Electricity Generation from Landfill Gas projects involve the installation and operation of a gas collection system to capture methane generated by decomposing organic matter. The standard requirements dictate that this captured methane must be combusted to generate electricity, which safely destroys the potent greenhouse gas and prevents it from entering the atmosphere while supplying renewable power to the grid.

The South Cardup area, situated near the Darling Scarp, is known for semi-rural residential development, grazing, agricultural land, and historical extractive industries like brickworks. The region experiences a Mediterranean climate characterized by high winter rainfall and hot, dry summers. The local soil profile is predominantly heavy clay and shale, which provides the low-permeability boundaries ideal for secure landfill containment.

This project transitioned from a revoked Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method and continues to capture gas from both legacy and non-legacy waste. It has undergone several method variations, most recently updating to the 2021 methodology in February 2022. The site has been highly productive; an initial carbon abatement contract (CAC143500) secured in April 2015 was successfully completed in October 2021, delivering a total of 3,526,278 tonnes of contracted abatement to the Commonwealth. In May 2026, the project proponent was formally updated from LMS Energy Pty Ltd to VELMS JOINT VENTURE PTY LTD.