Infinis Energy is a British renewable energy group headquartered in

Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ...

. Infinis produces electricity from captured landfill and mineral methane. Infinis claims to have a net negative carbon emissions footprint.

History

The company was originally created in 2006 as a subsidiary of

Waste Recycling Group FCC Environment (UK) Limited is a waste management company headquartered in Northampton, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas. It was formed in May 2012 through the merger and rebranding of Focsa ...

whose area of operations was the generation of energy from gas originating from the landfill sites in the WRG portfolio. The parent company,

Terra Firma Capital Partners Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. (TFCP) is a UK-based private equity firm. Financier Guy Hands founded the firm in 2002 through the spin-off of Nomura Principal Finance Group. The firm, which traces its roots to the formation of its predecess ...

, then sold WRG in July 2006 while retaining Infinis. Novera Energy was acquired in 2009, bringing additional

landfill gas Landfill gas is a mix of different gases created by the action of microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example, food waste and paper waste. Landfill gas is approximately forty to sixty percent methane, ...

sites, along with hydroelectric sites and wind development sites. Infinis went on to buy one operational and two consented wind farms from E.ON in 2011 and four wind farms from SSE in 2010 and 2011. After seven years of ownership by

, the company was the subject of an IPO (

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...

) in November 2013. Ian Marchant, formerly CEO of

Scottish and Southern Energy SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc) is a multinational energy company headquartered in Perth, Scotland Perth (Scottish English, locally: ; gd, Peairt ) is a city in central Scotland, on the banks of the River Tay. It is th ...

, was appointed Independent Chairman of the Infinis Board, in September 2013 in the run up to the IPO. The company was acquired by

in December 2015. Following the acquisition of the landfill gas business by 3i on 8 December 2016, Shane Pickering was appointed Chief Executive of Infinis and Director to the boards of the two new governing companies.

Tony Cocker Anthony David Cocker (born 26 April 1959) was the chief executive of E.ON UK, one of the '' Big Six'' UK energy providers. He is also a chairman of Infinis Energy Management Limited's board. Early life He was born in the Borough of Fylde, Lancashir ...

was appointed as Non-executive Director and Chairman to the Board of Infinis Energy Management Limited (the Infinis Group's governing board) on 1 August 2017. On 11 April 2018, Infinis acquired 100% of Alkane energy, an independent energy producer from coal mine methane and power response.

Operations

Infinis employs approximately 279 people across 153 operating sites with an aggregate generating capacity of 478MW*, comprising 121 landfill gas sites, 15 CMM sites and 17 PR sites.

References

External links

Official site
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History

Operations

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