East Rockingham Waste to Energy and Materials Recovery Facility (Revoked)

East Rockingham Waste to Energy and Materials Recovery Facility (Revoked) was a waste treatment project located in the industrial suburb of East Rockingham, approximately 40km south of Perth and 3km northeast of the Rockingham city centre in Western Australia. Registered in September 2015, the project was situated within the Rockingham Industry Zone, an area dedicated to heavy industry and manufacturing. The site itself sits on the Swan Coastal Plain, characterized by sandy soils (specifically Safety Bay Sand and Tamala Limestone) and a Mediterranean climate with winter-dominant rainfall averaging around 700mm annually.

The project operated under the Carbon Farming Initiative-Alternative Waste Treatment (AWT) methodology. This method credits emissions reductions achieved by diverting mixed solid waste, which would otherwise decompose in landfills and release methane, into a purpose-built facility. The East Rockingham facility was designed to process approximately 300,000 tonnes of residual waste per year, converting it into a combustible fuel substitute to generate up to 29MW of electricity.

Although the carbon project registration was revoked in June 2020, the physical infrastructure project proceeded under a consortium including New Energy Corporation, Hitachi Zosen Inova, and Acciona. The facility, which reached financial close in late 2019, is one of Australia's first utility-scale waste-to-energy plants. The revocation of the ACCU project likely coincided with the project securing alternative financing or shifting its focus to renewable energy certificates (LGCs) rather than carbon offsets, a common trajectory for large-scale energy generation projects.