Engineering Excellence – LGI Wins Top IPWEA Award for Mugga Lane

The LGI team is incredibly proud to have taken out the Excellence in Environment & Sustainability accolade at the 2026 IPWEA NSW & ACT Engineering Excellence Awards.

The prestigious award recognises our world-class Landfill Gas Renewable Hybrid project at the Mugga Lane landfill in the ACT. Matthew Tap, LGI’s Projects & Innovation Manager, was on hand to accept the trophy on behalf of the engineering and operational teams who brought this highly complex facility to life.

Mugga Lane represents the future of landfill gas utilisation. By integrating 6MW of reliable biogas power generation with 12MWh of Tesla battery storage, the site provides a blueprint for expediting the energy transition. The brain of the entire hybrid system is our proprietary Dynamic Asset Control System (DACS), which uses advanced machine learning to execute autonomous, five-minute market bidding and respond to grid volatility within milliseconds.

Operating in close collaboration with our partners at ACT NoWaste, the Mugga Lane facility provides dispatchable, clean electricity to power more than 10,800 homes annually. Winning this award reinforces LGI’s position as an industry leader in transforming legacy municipal liabilities into high-performing, grid-stabilising assets.