Kincumber Landfill Gas Abatement Facility

Kincumber Landfill Gas Abatement Facility is a landfill gas abatement project located at Kincumber, approximately 15km southeast of Gosford in the Central Coast region of NSW. It was registered in August 2013 and operates across an unspecified project area within the Central Coast Council's Kincumber Waste Management Facility.

Landfill gas abatement projects involve capturing and combusting methane gas generated by decomposing organic waste within a landfill. Standard requirements for this methodology involve installing gas collection infrastructure, such as flares or electricity generators, to combust methane and convert it into carbon dioxide, drastically reducing its greenhouse gas impact.

The Kincumber area features a mix of coastal residential suburbs, native forest reserves, and municipal facilities. The region is known for a humid, high rainfall coastal climate, and soils are generally sandy loams with clay subsoils typical of the local sandstone geology.

This project transitioned from a now-revoked Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method to the updated 2015 methodology in June 2015. It continues to capture and combust gas from both legacy and non-legacy waste. The project was originally established with AGL Energy Services Pty Limited and successfully completed a 65,000-unit carbon abatement contract (CAC207884). In November 2023, the proponent status was transferred to LMS Energy Pty Ltd, a major Australian landfill bioenergy operator.