Albury Landfill Gas Project

Albury Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas electricity generation project located at the Albury Waste Management Centre in Hamilton Valley, a few kilometres northwest of the major regional city of Albury, NSW. It was registered in February 2013 and covers the active and capped footprint of the regional waste management facility, though the exact project area size is not publicly disclosed.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve capturing methane, a potent greenhouse gas produced by decomposing organic waste, and combusting it in a generator to produce renewable electricity. This methodology requires projects to continuously operate a gas collection system covering both legacy and non-legacy waste.

The Albury-Wodonga region is known for a mixture of urban development, broadacre agriculture, and grazing. The area experiences a temperate climate with moderate rainfall (averaging roughly 700mm annually), and the local soils are generally alluvial clays and loams.

Interestingly, this project site became Australia's first operational solar farm built on a reclaimed landfill in 2019. A 1.1 MW solar photovoltaic system was added to the site's existing bioenergy facility to create the Albury Renewable Energy Hub, bringing the site's combined renewable energy capacity to approximately 2.6 MW. Because a capped landfill's protective membrane cannot be safely punctured, the developers utilised an innovative "Maverick" ballasted framework by 5B to safely anchor the 4,000 solar panels above the ground. Additionally, the project transitioned from an older, revoked CFI method and successfully fulfilled a large Commonwealth fixed delivery carbon abatement contract (CAC783640), which was completed in April 2022.