Albury Landfill Gas Project

Albury Landfill Gas Project is an electricity generation from landfill gas project located on the eastern outskirts of Albury in southern New South Wales. Registered in February 2013, it covers an unspecified area confined to the local municipal waste management facility. The broader Riverina and Southern Slopes region surrounding Albury is heavily utilized for agriculture, primarily winter cropping, sheep, and cattle grazing. Environmentally, the area experiences moderate, winter-dominant rainfall and features soils dominated by Chromosols, which consist of sandy loam to loamy topsoils situated over a clay subsoil.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve capturing and combusting methane emitted by decomposing organic waste within a landfill environment. Under the Carbon Farming Initiative (Electricity Generation from Landfill Gas) Methodology, the standard requirements mandate installing and operating a network of gas collection wells and piping to extract the methane. The gas is then routed to a combustion device, such as a generator, that destroys the methane by converting it into less potent carbon dioxide while concurrently generating renewable electricity.

The project is managed by LMS Energy Pty Ltd, a major participant in Australia's landfill gas industry. The Albury project initially operated under an early Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method before successfully transitioning through a series of method variations in 2015 and 2022 to align with updated electricity generation methodologies. Notably, its collection system actively captures and processes gas from both older "legacy" waste and newer "non-legacy" waste. In April 2015, the project was included in a substantial Fixed Delivery carbon abatement contract (CAC783640). Bundled with several other LMS Energy landfill sites across the country, such as Awaba, Darwin, and Newcastle, this contract successfully delivered over 1.5 million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the Commonwealth before reaching completion in April 2022.