Cedars Road Landfill Gas Extraction and Combustion

Cedars Road Landfill Gas Extraction and Combustion is a landfill gas capture and electricity generation project located at the Cedars Road Waste Facility in South Bingera, approximately 15 kilometres southwest of Bundaberg in Queensland. It was registered in February 2014 and covers a project area constrained to the footprint of the operational regional landfill.

Landfill gas projects operating under the Electricity Generation from Landfill Gas methodology involve the installation of infrastructure within a landfill's waste mass to capture methane-rich biogas generated by decomposing legacy and non-legacy organic waste. Once collected, the biogas is routed to a combustion device, such as a flare or an engine, where it is used to generate renewable electricity. This process physically destroys methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, by converting it into carbon dioxide, thereby mitigating the landfill's overall emissions.

The surrounding Bundaberg area is predominantly utilised for intensive agricultural purposes, including sugarcane cropping, horticulture, and cattle grazing. The environment of the region is characterised by a subtropical climate with high, summer-dominant rainfall. The regional soils are highly diverse, typically featuring productive basalt-derived red volcanic soils, sandy loams, and heavier clays that actively support the area's robust agricultural industry.

This project was originally registered to the Bundaberg Regional Council, which was issued 4,047 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) during the 2014/15 financial year. In early 2015, project participation was officially transferred to LGI Limited, which subsequently installed a bespoke, ERF-compliant biogas management system that operates at minimal cost to the council. Over the last decade, the partnership between LGI and the council has successfully captured more than 65.8 million cubic metres of biogas across Cedars Road and a secondary local landfill, effectively reducing local carbon emissions by 625,000 tonnes. A carbon abatement contract (CAC333101) tied to the project was successfully completed in September 2021.