Chichester Hub Emissions Reduction Project - Option 2 (Revoked)

The Chichester Hub Emissions Reduction Project - Option 2 (Revoked) was an industrial energy efficiency project located at the Chichester Hub iron ore mining complex in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The site is situated approximately 110 kilometers north-northwest of the major mining town of Newman. Registered in June 2017 and covering an undefined area within the proponent's mining leases, the project operated in a region primarily defined by large-scale resource extraction and pastoral grazing on native rangelands. The environment in this part of the Pilbara is classified as semi-desert tropical, characterised by highly variable rainfall averaging around 300mm annually and soils dominated by shallow earthy loams and basalt plains.

The project was registered under the Industrial Electricity and Fuel Efficiency methodology, which credits activities that reduce emissions by improving the efficiency of energy-consuming equipment or by switching to lower-emission energy sources. Specifically, this registration appears linked to the broader Chichester Solar Gas Hybrid Project, a major infrastructure initiative to replace diesel generation at the Cloudbreak and Christmas Creek mines with a 60MW solar farm and grid-connected gas generation.

Notably, this specific carbon project registration was voluntarily revoked in April 2021. While the physical infrastructure was successfully completed and energized by late 2021, allowing the mines to run on up to 100% renewable energy during the day, the revocation of the ACCU project suggests the proponent likely opted to utilise the Large-scale Generation Certificate (LGC) scheme under the Renewable Energy Target instead, as projects generally cannot claim both LGCs and ACCUs for the same renewable energy generation.