2014 was the year that Fylde Fresh and Fabulous really stepped up its role in helping the environment by investing in a £2m on-site biogas plant, using the latest Anaerobic Digestion technology.

The gas produced by the potato trimmings is captured by feeding these biodegradable trimmings into a large digester tank. This, balanced with grass silage and animal manure, produces sufficient gas to generate up to 1000kw per hour of both thermal heat and electricity from a combined Heat & Power unit. In 2024 we were voted as the world’s best Biogas operator at the  World Biogas Association awards held in Birmingham, winning the award for Best Biogas Plant: Below 1mWe.

All generated heat is used in the offices, the farm site and in the Fylde Fresh and Fabulous factories. The electricity is just as effective, completely powering the potato factories, with any surplus passed on to the National Grid. The waste product from the AD is a natural fertiliser that is put back on our fields enriching the soil and negating the need for industrial fertilisers.

Quite simply, the Fylde Fresh and Fabulous biogas plant is a totally integrated self-sufficient operation. It makes use of all bi-products from the primary process of taking potatoes from the field, to the point where they’re ready to be distributed to ready meal manufacturers, food services companies and chip shops around the UK.

The biogas plant is supplied by British manufacturer Marches Biogas.