'Grosvenor 2 Coal Mine Waste Gas Power Station Project

Grosvenor 2 Coal Mine Waste Gas Power Station Project is an industrial fugitives project located at the Grosvenor coal mine near Moranbah, approximately 195km southwest of Mackay in Central Queensland. It was registered in August 2016. While the specific project area size is not publicly detailed, the region around Moranbah is heavily dominated by the metallurgical coal mining industry, interspersed with beef cattle grazing and strategic cropping areas. The local environment features a semi-arid, sub-tropical climate with an average annual rainfall of 500mm to 600mm. The region's soil types predominantly include vertosols (deep cracking clays) and shallow basaltic soils found across the open downs.

Coal Mine Waste Gas projects involve installing and operating devices to capture and combust the methane component of waste gas emitted from coal mining operations. This specific displacement electricity production project installs and operates expansion electricity production devices. By converting the captured methane into electricity, the project prevents a highly potent greenhouse gas from venting into the atmosphere while simultaneously generating reliable power that displaces electricity otherwise drawn from the national grid.

The project is a 15MW expansion developed by EDL Projects (Australia) Pty Ltd, augmenting the existing 21MW Grosvenor 1 power station on Anglo American's underground coal mine. Effective methane management is highly critical at this site, as the Grosvenor mine has a history of severe methane-related incidents. This includes a major ignition event in 2020 that critically injured five workers, and a massive underground fire in July 2024 that resulted in NASA satellites detecting a persistent stream of methane being released at a rate of 7.6 tonnes per hour. As part of its recent administrative milestones, the project updated its methodology in March 2025 to Compilation No. 3, and successfully completed its Commonwealth carbon abatement contract (CAC643075) for over 300,000 tonnes of abatement in July 2026.