Pilot Landfill Solar Project
- $100k Funded by ARENA
- $299k Total project cost
Summary
The Pilot Landfill Solar Project is a pilot scale photovoltaic (PV) installation to determine the feasibility of installing solar PV at a landfill site.
Need
The Pilot Landfill Solar project led by LMS Energy acknowledges that two significant barriers often faced by solar PV projects are the availability and cost of land and grid connection.
Landfill sites represent a large amount of land with limited secondary uses. In addition, large sites often feature landfill gas electricity generation, including established grid connection.
Landfill sites therefore provide the opportunity to reduce both land and connection costs for a solar PV installation, if the challenges of installing solar PV on a landfill can be overcome.
Learn more
Report: Pilot Landfill Solar Report Feasibility Study
The Pilot Landfill Solar Report Feasibility Study project sought to investigate the technical and financial feasibility of building solar on landfill sites in Australia.
Report: Lessons Learnt Report Solar Landfill Project
This lessons learnt report discusses the construction phase of the Pilot Landfill Solar Project and the potential explosive risk of landfill gas.
Video: Pilot Landfill Solar Project
The Pilot Landfill Solar Project is a pilot scale photovoltaic (PV) installation to determine the feasibility of installing solar PV at a landfill site.
Presentation: Waste Expo
This presentation was presented by Matthew Falzon from Joule Energy on 12 October 2017.
Project innovation
The Pilot Landfill Solar Project will consist of a 100KW PV installation with three different types of foundations/footings that have previously never been trialled on landfills in Australia.
The project will determine which foundation is the best for PV installations on a landfill.
Benefit
If proven possible this project could help the waste and solar industries to provide previously unknown renewable energy opportunities in Australia.
ARENAWIRE Blogs
The Wollert rubbish tip has come a long way
As trucks rumble along and disgorge their unwanted cargo into a giant pit, Hansons Landfill in Wollert looks like any other version of exactly what it is: a suburban rubbish tip.
