The move marked the expansion of the company’s services in the southwest, building on BioticNRGs nearby Malady Biogas site and adding a strategically located asset that processes food waste from across the local area.
The Langage plant generates electricity for export to the grid and supplies power directly to the neighbouring Langage Farm and Langage Dairy Products, a dairy operation producing ice cream.
It processes up to 20,000 tonnes of food waste each year, and also produces biofertiliser that is used to nourish the farm fields.
Ed Bastow, CEO of Biotic NRG, commented: “The site has the potential to be a long term part of our waste management solution in the South West with a transfer station which can serve our other local sites, and planning consent for conversion to a gas to grid facility.”
BioticNRG was advised on the transaction by Brodies, A&M, Fichtner and Marsh.
BioticNRG’s anaerobic digestion fleet
BioticNRG owns and operates seven anaerobic digestion assets and associated infrastructure across the UK.
Its portfolio includes four gas-to-grid AD plants and two combined heat and power (CHP) plants.
BioticNRG is funded by APG Asset Management, acting on behalf of ABP, with investments and activities managed by Palisade Real Assets, part of the global infrastructure investment group Palisade Investment Partners.
The acquisition followed a period of growth, with the parallel purchases of AD Aggregator Platform (ADAP) and Material Change Limited (MCL) announced in June 2024.
Scaling up for Simpler Recycling
BioticNRG’s acquisition of the Langage AD facility comes ahead of the expansion of Simpler Recycling legislation in March 2026, which will require local authorities to provide the separate collection of dry recycling, food waste and residual waste.
Councils have received over £88 million in funding allocations to support the rollout of weekly food waste collections in England.
This update is expected to hugely impact the amount of food waste available for processing, with tonnages to AD facilities expected to increase as more households are given access to separate food waste collection.
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