Glenorchy Landfill Gas Abatement Facility

Glenorchy Landfill Gas Abatement Facility is a landfill gas abatement project located at the Jackson Street Landfill in Glenorchy, approximately 7km northwest of the Hobart central business district in Tasmania. It was registered on August 14, 2013, and while the specific project area size is undefined in public registers, it operates within the active bounds of the local municipal waste management centre. The immediate regional land use is heavily characterised by urban, residential, and commercial developments, while the wider Derwent Valley and Hobart regions support forestry, grazing, and large natural conservation areas. The Glenorchy region experiences a cool temperate climate but sits partially in a rain shadow from the Central Highlands, resulting in relatively low but consistent average rainfall. The soils across southern Tasmania are highly diverse, with the area generally featuring clay loams, podzolic soils, and rocky dolerite-derived soils on the foothills.

The project focuses on the continuing operation of a landfill gas collection system and is governed by the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative, Electricity Generation from Landfill Gas) Methodology Determination 2021. Landfill gas abatement projects involve capturing biogas, primarily methane, a potent greenhouse gas produced by the decomposition of organic legacy and non-legacy waste, before it can vent into the atmosphere. The standard requirements for this specific method dictate that the captured methane must be sent to a combustion device or an internal combustion engine to generate electricity, thereby destroying the methane and providing a renewable energy source.

Over its operational history, this project has undergone several notable variations in both methodology and project participants. It originally commenced under a 2012 legacy waste methodology with AGL Energy Services Pty Limited, before transitioning to the Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Trust in 2019. In 2022, the participant name was varied to LMS Energy Pty Ltd, which coincided with the project's transition to the updated 2021 electricity generation methodology. Additionally, the facility was backed by a Commonwealth fixed-delivery carbon abatement contract (CAC198503) secured in an April 2015 auction. This contract was successfully completed on February 27, 2023, delivering a total of 167,000 ACCUs to the Australian Government.