Wyndham Landfill Gas Project

Wyndham Landfill Gas Project is an electricity generation from landfill gas project located in Werribee, approximately 30km southwest of Melbourne in Victoria. It was registered in February 2013 and covers an unspecified area at the local municipal Refuse Disposal Facility.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve the installation of a gas collection system to capture methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas produced by the decomposition of organic waste. The captured landfill gas is then combusted to generate renewable electricity, thereby destroying the methane and preventing harmful emissions from entering the atmosphere.

The Werribee and Wyndham region is positioned on the rapidly growing urban fringe of western Melbourne, where local land use is characterised by a mix of expanding residential developments, industrial waste facilities, and remnant agricultural grazing. Environmentally, the region sits on large, flat volcanic plains. As a result, the soils are predominantly shallow, alkaline, and sodic clays overlying solid basalt bedrock. The area experiences a relatively dry, low-rainfall climate compared to the rest of Melbourne due to a local rain shadow effect, occasionally recording as little as 338mm of rain annually.

Operated by LMS Energy Pty Ltd, this project has transitioned through multiple methodology variations, updating from a revoked legacy Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method in 2012, to the 2015 method, and most recently to the 2021 methodology determination. It actively continues to capture and combust gas generated from both legacy and non-legacy waste. Additionally, the project successfully fulfilled a major Commonwealth Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC783510) in April 2022, delivering guaranteed abatement volumes alongside other LMS Energy sites. It is also notable that large corporate entities, such as Woodside Energy, have sourced Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) directly from this project to help offset their corporate Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions.