Tasmania

1. Landfill Gas Power generation facility, Tasmania
Project type: Waste Disposal Facility
Location: McRobies Gully, Tasmania
Capacity: 1.0 Mega Watt (can power 1,100 average households per annum)
Commissioned: March 2005
Accreditation: Greenhouse Friendly

The extraction and combustion of landfill gas at McRobies Gully in Hobart, prevents its escape into the atmosphere and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Utilising the gas produced in the landfill to generate electricity means AGL is also displacing electricity sourced from fossil fuels. This project saves more than 35,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum. This can be equated into some easily communicated figures such as:

• removing more than 9,200 cars from the road for one year, or
• equivalent to the amount of greenhouse gases emitted as a result of supplying electricity to around 4,500 average households; or
• planting more than 130,500 trees.