Bio Capital is pleased to announce that Equitix has become its 100% shareholder following the successful acquisition of Helios’ interests in the company. This marks the next chapter in Bio Capital’s success story as the company looks forward to future growth and expansion.
Formed in 2018 by Equitix and Helios Energy Investments, Bio Capital has established itself as the UK’s leading anaerobic digestion (AD) business with a growing portfolio of plants across the country.
Generating renewable electricity and gas (biomethane) for homes, businesses and the transport sector, Bio Capital is enabling the UK’s energy transition and journey to Net Zero, while annually diverting half a million tons of food waste from landfill and avoiding 360,000 tons of CO₂. In 2024, another record year, Bio Capital produced over 645,000MWth of green power across its plants, which is enough power to provide clean electricity to over 100,000 UK households.
Bio Capital is also at the forefront of innovation and will soon become the first company in the UK toproduce food grade CO₂ from food waste at its state-of-the-art Granville Eco Park facility in North Ireland.
Peter Sharpe, CEO of Bio Capital, said: “From kitchen to kilowatt, and back again. Bio Capital exemplifies the circular economy in action through the production of renewable electricity and gas (biomethane) to power homes, businesses and transportation, and through sustainable biofertilisers that go back on to the land. These are exciting times for Bio Capital and in Equitix we have a strong shareholder who is committed to our business. We are now set for further success and growth as we help to drive forward the UK’s energy transition and journey to Net Zero.”
Equitix is a leader in infrastructure and operational management, while Helios is renowned for its extensive expertise in renewable energy and biogas.
Equitix CEO, Hugh Crossley said: “We are delighted with this additional investment into Bio Capital, a business which we have supported from inception, and will now steward as the sole Shareholder in the next chapter of its growth. Leveraging our decade-long experience in the Environmental Services sector, and with almost £2bn in AUM invested, we are firmly committed to supporting decarbonisation of the UK power and gas network.”
Helios’ founding Managing Partner, Erez Gissin said: “We are very proud to lead and support Bio Capital throughout its investment cycle – from inception through multiple acquisitions, building the management team, enhancing our plants’ performance with new technologies and operational efficiencies, all the way to becoming the leading AD platform in the UK . . . we are confident that Bio Capital will continue to thrive under Equitix’s ownership and wish them continued success.”
