New clean power generation at Ruthin Biomass Energy Company
Newbridge Energy will be doubling the size of its workforce and installing three biomass generating units in North Wales after a multi-million pound investment from the independent energy and environmental investment company, Iona Capital. It is Iona Capital’s third clean energy investment in North Wales, following its investments in biogas projects at St Asaph and […]
£18m green energy plant to open in North Yorkshire
A sustainable energy plant that will turn tens of thousands of tons of food waste into gas and electricity has been launched in North Yorkshire by Iona Capital and JFS & Associates. The Leeming Biogas facility is one of the largest anaerobic digestion plants in the country to feed gas directly into the national grid. […]
Iona Capital partners with Grocontinental
The Salop Biogas AD facility is an anaerobic digester plant that is being developed in a joint undertaking between Iona Capital, an investor in environmental Infrastructure and Shropshire based Grocontinental, one of the UK’s leading storage and distribution companies. The AD plant is located on a dedicated 5 acre site adjacent to the extensive Grocontinental […]
Funds ‘available for green infrastructure’
Iona Capital has recently spoken to letsrecycle.com on investing into environmental infrastructure projects. Iona manages funds for institutional investors who provide equity and subordinated debt into renewable infrastructure projects in the ‘BioEnergy’ sector. To read the full article, please follow the link Funds ‘available for green infrastructure’.
Washfold is on the news
Washfold Farm Biogas, one of Iona’s investments, has recently been on the national news. You can read more in the Daily Mail or watch the BBC video about how farmers can generate returns from the farm waste: Where there’s muck there’s brass on Daily Mail website.
Iona Capital establishes £60m renewable infrastructure fund
Greater Manchester Pensions Fund (GMPF) and the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) today announced they have jointly committed £60m towards funding the construction and operation of British renewable energy assets. The funds will work with Iona Capital who will be responsible for sourcing and management of the individual projects. The investment, which is the first […]
Advantage Biogas acquisition
Iona Capital Ltd, a leading investor in the UK bioenergy sector, is pleased to announce that it has acquired MT Energie’s UK Service business from MT Energie’s German administrator. Following the acquisition, the business has been renamed Advantage Biogas (“Advantage”) and is targeting the growing demand from operators of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants for quality, […]
Iona Capital became a member of REA
We are happy to announce that Iona Capital became a member of REA – Renewable Energy Association. The REA was established in 2001 as a not-for-profit trade association, representing British renewable energy producers and promoting the use of renewable energy in the UK. The REA undertakes policy development and provides feedback to government departments and […]
Iona delivers on two more biomethane plants
Iona Capital Ltd, an established investor in the bioenergy sector, is pleased to announce that two of its current AD (Anaerobic Digestion) developments, Leeming Biogas and St Boswells Biogas, both achieved initial biomethane injection into the UK gas distribution network in June. This is a significant milestone in the development of a project as it […]
Watch Keithick Biogas plant aerial video
Iona’s first fund, Iona Environmental Infrastructure (IEILP), has financed the design and construction of first commercial gas to grid Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant in in Scotland in 2014. Keithick Biogas, an AD bio-methane grid injection plant, processing over 36,000 tonnes per annum of whole crop rye, maize, sugar beet off-cuts, raw silage and chicken litter […]
