11Requirements for an upgrade project

11 Requirements for an upgrade project

(1) An upgrade project must: (a) upgrade an existing landfill gas collection system at a landfill to increase its collection efficiency to a higher annual level than previously measured at the landfill over each year covered by subsection (2); and (b) install new gas wells to increase landfill gas collection; and (c) combust the gas collected using a combustion device. (2) An application for declaration of an upgrade project as an eligible offsets project must include operational records that: (a) support the calculation of the collection efficiency of the existing landfill gas collection system; and (b) cover the 4‑year period before the application is made. (3) The first reporting period for an upgrade project must end not less than 12 months after the landfill gas collection system, as upgraded, begins to collect landfill gas. (4) However, an upgrade project applying this determination before the commencement of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Landfill Gas) Methodology Determination Variation 2021 remains an upgrade project if it complies with the requirements of this section before it was varied.

Note: Crediting for such projects would consider 2 years or, if data is available to the project proponent for that period, 3 years of previous data under section 29, if the project proponent does not have 4 years of previous data available.