Landfill Gas Capture📍 Fujian Province, ChinaVerified by Germanischer Lloyd Certification

Fuzhou Hongmiaoling Landfill Gas to Electricity

This project collects landfill gas to generate 2.5MW of electricity at a landfill in southeastern China, avoiding the emission of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere and using the methane to generate power and displace dirtier coal-fired power in the electric grid.

This project supports collection of landfill gas and generation of 2.5MW of electricity at a landfill in Fuzhou City in Fujian Province in southeastern China. The landfill received waste from 1995 until 2008, and—like most landfills—throws off methane as some of that waste decomposes. Credits are generated from two pieces of the project: (1) avoiding the emissions of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere and (2) using the power generated from the methane (natural gas) to displace dirtier coal-fired power coming from the electric grid. The project clearly required carbon revenues to achieve these two goals and therefore generates high-quality carbon offsets.

Developer: Fujian Tianyi Renewable Energy Technology & Utilization Co., Ltd.
Methodology: ACM0001
Permanence: 100
Registry: Verra

UN Sustainable Development Goals

37813

Credit issuances by vintage

2007

3,877,000 t

2008

45,740,000 t

2011

22,842,000 t

2012

21,522,000 t

2014

23,493,000 t

2015

43,917,000 t

2016

124,677,000 t

2017

68,683,000 t

In the news

Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions
The Economist · 8/22/2024
Our take: China emits ~14% of the global methane emissions each year. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that has more than 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Reducing methane emissions will be critical to turning the tide on climate change and landfill gas projects such as this, which reduce methane emissions and convert them into electricity, are going to help us get there.
Exploding craters and overflowing landfills are unexpected sources of methane
BBC · 4/3/2024
Our take: Landfills are a major global source of methane, and given that China produces more landfill waste than any other country, it has a lot of landfill methane to contend with. If methane gas is not captured in landfills, it can build up and lead to dangerous fires and explosions. By capturing methane gas, this project helps to protect local communities from such potential dangers.
Landfill Gas projects garner high ratings but low interest
Calyx Global · 3/17/2023
Our take: Calyx has found that landfill gas projects are some of the highest quality carbon projects available on the market. However, because they are not as charismatic as forest projects, despite often being much higher quality, they are not as popular with buyers. They recommend, as we do, that buyers should focus more on quality and begin to invest more heavily in landfill gas projects such as this one.
Integrity Council announces first high-integrity CCP-labeled carbon credits, as assessments continue
ICVCM · 6/6/2024
Our take: The ICVCM has been widely considered as the leading authority on carbon quality. They found that landfill gas projects are some of the highest quality projects in the VCM. While they did not apply their CCP label to Fuzhou, which uses an older methodology that they did not review, they did apply it to newer versions of its methodology which supports this project’s quality claim. While a CCP label isn’t enough to define quality, it still serves as a useful quality indicator.

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