Remount Landfill Gas Project

Remount Landfill Gas Project is an electricity generation from landfill gas project located at the Remount Road Launceston Waste Centre in Mowbray, a few kilometres north of the Launceston CBD in Tasmania. It was registered in March 2013 and operates within the footprint of the municipal waste management facility, though its exact spatial area is not publicly disclosed.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve installing infrastructure to capture landfill biogas, which contains high concentrations of methane generated as organic waste decomposes, and combusting it in an engine to produce renewable electricity. Standard requirements for this methodology include continuous monitoring of gas flow rates, methane concentration levels, and the total amount of electricity generated.

The Launceston and Tamar Valley region is known for diverse agricultural land uses, including sheep and cattle grazing, orcharding, and viticulture, alongside commercial forestry operations. The area experiences a temperate climate with moderate, consistent rainfall. Soils in this region generally consist of alluvial deposits, clay loams, and podzolic soils.

The project captures and combusts gas generated at the landfill from legacy and non-legacy waste, actively preventing methane from entering the atmosphere while displacing fossil-fuel power. It transitioned through several method variations, most recently adopting the 2021 Electricity Generation from Landfill Gas methodology in early 2022. Interestingly, the project was contracted under an April 2015 carbon abatement auction (Contract CAC783640) and successfully completed its delivery obligations in April 2022. The proponent, LMS Energy, is a major methane abatement company that operates the Launceston facility with an installed baseload capacity of 2.2 megawatts.