BioticNRG joined the AD sector in September 2022 with its acquisition of Malaby Biogas Limited, a waste processing AD plant in Warminster, Wiltshire which was the seed plant for the BioticNRG bioenergy platform. Since that time, BioticNRG has expanded its portfolio considerably to total 9 AD plants and 5 compost facilities, as well as 4 additional AD plants which it operates for third parties.
In July 2024, BioticNRG acquired Material Change Limited, an highly regarded operational management business in the energy and waste sectors at the same times as acquiring all of the AD and composting sites operated by Material Change from RBS Pension Fund and Heathpatch Limited.
Material Change set up its first compost site in 2004 and over the following 20 years expanded, building and operating AD plants and compost sites. BioticNRG’s now CEO, Ed Bastow, joined Material Change in 2007.
In 2011 Material Change acquired the Corby and Creeting compost sites after the administration of County Mulch. The Corby site added food waste processing, through the in-vessel composting system while the Creeting acquisition also provided new outlets to its recycling customers and added a wide variety of bark, mulch and fine grade compost products supplied from the site to the whole of the UK, a business which is still operates today.
2012 saw Material Change expand its composting operations into the field of Anaerobic Digestion, constructing a 1.4MW electricity to grid Anaerobic Digestion plant at Symonds Farm in Risby, Bury St Edmunds under a joint venture arrangement with the landowner GEO Gittus and Sons. The site was completed on time and on budget and has been providing green electricity to local businesses and to the National Grid since it was commissioned.
In 2014 and 2015 Material Change constructed two additional Anaerobic Digestion plants – a gas to grid plant located adjacent to the Helmdon Compost site and a 2.8MW Anaerobic Digestion plant adjacent to Material Change Decoy Compost site at Crowland, near Peterborough.
In August 2019, Material Change and its then funder Foresight acquired AD plants near Thetford and Newmarket, called Bay Farm and Euston Biogas. Both these AD sites are producing gas to grid on a large scale and later that year acquired three AD plants in Norfolk, the Oak Grove AD facility as well as the Corner and Stafford AD plants.
In 2023 Material Change acquired Fraddon Biogas in Cornwall, which it later sold in January 2024 to Generate, along with the Corner and Stafford sites, with Material Change retaining long term operation and management contracts for the sites.
Since its acquisition of Material Change in 2024, BioticNRG has purchased two further AD plants – Evercreech Renewable Energy Limited and Langage AD (UK) LLP both located in the South West region of England.