Grosvenor Waste Coal Mine Gas Power Station

Grosvenor Waste Coal Mine Gas Power Station is an Industrial Fugitives (Coal Mine Waste Gas) project located at the Grosvenor Mine, approximately 5km north of Moranbah in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland. It was registered in August 2015, though the exact size of the project area is undocumented.

Coal Mine Waste Gas projects involve capturing the methane component of fugitive emissions from underground coal mines that would otherwise be vented directly into the atmosphere. As a standard requirement of the methodology, this specific project uses the captured methane to power a displacement, new, and expansion electricity production device. This process mitigates overall greenhouse gas emissions by combusting the potent methane gas and generating usable power.

The Moranbah region is heavily dominated by large-scale metallurgical coal mining operations, while the surrounding surface land is historically and currently used for cattle grazing. The area experiences a semi-arid climate characterized by variable, summer-dominant rainfall. Soils in this part of the Brigalow Belt are typically heavy cracking clays (vertosols) and solodics.

The carbon project is run by EDL Projects (Australia) Pty Ltd in association with the Grosvenor mine, which is operated by Anglo American. The Grosvenor mine is well-known as one of the most methane-rich underground coal mines in Australia. It has faced significant methane-related safety issues over the years, most notably suffering severe underground fires and explosions in May 2020 and June 2024, leading to the temporary sealing of the mine. Despite the mine's operational and safety challenges, the associated carbon project successfully fulfilled its government contract obligations (CAC102147) in July 2024, successfully delivering hundreds of thousands of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the Commonwealth. A variation to update the methodology to Compilation No. 3 was subsequently recorded for the project in March 2025.