Bendigo Landfill Gas Project

Bendigo Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas capture and electricity generation project located at the municipal landfill in Bendigo, Victoria. It was registered in March 2013 and operates over an unspecified area size, which is standard for facility-based emissions reduction projects.

Electricity generation from landfill gas projects involve the ongoing operation of a gas collection system within a landfill site to extract methane generated by the decomposition of organic waste. Standard requirements dictate that the captured methane must be combusted in a generator to produce renewable electricity. This converts the highly potent methane gas into less harmful carbon dioxide while directly displacing fossil-fuel power on the electrical grid.

The rural Bendigo region is known for a diverse agricultural base that features sheep and cattle grazing in the southern areas and broadacre cropping in the north. The area generally experiences a temperate, semi-arid climate with moderate but variable annual rainfall averaging between 425mm and 500mm. The local soils typically consist of sandy loams and heavier red sodic clay loams, many of which can be acidic due to historical cultivation and natural leaching.

Managed by LMS Energy Pty Ltd, one of Australia's most experienced landfill biogas companies, this project continues to capture and combust gas generated at the landfill from both legacy and non-legacy waste. The project has continually adapted to changing regulatory standards, transitioning from a revoked legacy waste method to the 2015 Landfill Gas methodology, and ultimately varied to the 2021 Electricity Generation determination in February 2022. Additionally, the project was part of a large multi-site Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC362004) awarded to LMS Energy that committed 906,223 ACCUs to the Commonwealth. This contract successfully reached completion in April 2022.