Qube Renewables
Qube Renewables is a UK-based designer and manufacturer of small-scale, modular anaerobic digestion systems that convert biodegradable waste into biogas and fertilizer for food and drink manufacturers, farms, humanitarian and military deployments, and remote off-grid sites, sold globally via Registered Collaborators and project financing.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2012
- HeadquartersTaunton, United Kingdom
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What Qube Renewables does
Qube Renewables Ltd is a UK-based designer and manufacturer of small-scale, modular anaerobic digestion (AD) systems, established in 2012 as a spin-off from environmental consultancy Aardvark EM Ltd. The company develops containerized and flat-pack AD units — bioQUBE, quickQUBE, lagoonQUBE, dryQUBE, powerQUBE, and miniQUBE — that convert biodegradable waste from food and drink manufacturers, agricultural operations, military and humanitarian deployments, and remote off-grid sites into biogas (used for cooking, heating, electricity via CHP, and biomethane) and digestate biofertilizer. Technology is differentiated by miniaturization and modularization of AD for low-volume, hard-to-reach applications, with proprietary physical-product design (e.g., lagoonQUBE floating hexagonal covers, dryQUBE batch dry digestion for lignocellulosic feedstocks such as rice straw) backed by research partnerships with the University of Manchester and University of Southampton.
The business sells hardware outright or on hire, delivers turn-key installation through a global network of trained Registered Collaborators, and offers project financing via Lombard Finance (up to 90% of install costs) and private-equity-backed 100% funding for qualifying long-revenue Government and NGO projects. Pricing is project-based and sized to deliver a payback period of under six years, with reported asset lives of ten or more years. Customers span food and drink (e.g., British Sugar, Howard Tenens, Cook Food), agriculture (e.g., Parkham Farm, Barbers Cheesemakers, Sharpham, Rix Farm, Mapledurham, Toggam), energy (AGE Renewables, CCI Bioenergy), and humanitarian/deployable systems (Loowatt, Madagascar, Philippines rice-straw sites). The company is privately held, founder-controlled by Joanna Clayton and Mark Clayton, with wholly-owned regional subsidiaries in Singapore and India supporting overseas markets; no institutional funding rounds are disclosed.
Qube Renewables firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Qube Renewables
- Legal name
- Qube Renewables Ltd.
- Website
- https://quberenewables.co.uk
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2012
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Qube Renewables is a UK-based designer and manufacturer of small-scale, modular anaerobic digestion systems that convert biodegradable waste into biogas and fertilizer for food and drink manufacturers, farms, humanitarian and military deployments, and remote off-grid sites, sold globally via Registered Collaborators and project financing.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Qube Renewables industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Small-scale Anaerobic Digestion / Biogas Systems
- NAICS
- Industrial and Commercial Fan and Blower and Air Purification Equipment Manufacturing (333413)
- SIC
- Cogeneration Services & Small Power Producers (4991)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Biogas Plants (Agricultural, Industrial & Municipal) (EUAAAEAA)
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Where Qube Renewables is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Taunton
- HQ country
- United Kingdom
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices4 records
Markets served
Qube Renewables business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Equipment Sales: Sale of anaerobic digestion systems (bioQUBE, quickQUBE, lagoonQUBE, dryQUBE, powerQUBE, miniQUBE) and ancillaries including biogas treatment pods, storage, biomethane upgraders, CHP generators, and control systems.
- Installation Services: Turn-key build and installation services through network of Registered Collaborators.
- Equipment Hire: Rental of digesters for short-term or trial deployments.
- Project Financing: Asset-based funding via Lombard Finance (up to 90% of install costs) and private equity funding (up to 100% for qualifying projects with long-term revenues).
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| One time/ perpetual license | Multi-year contract | bioQUBE - Containerized modular digester |
| One time/ perpetual license | Multi-year contract | quickQUBE - Deployable flexible digester |
| One time/ perpetual license | Multi-year contract | lagoonQUBE - Lagoon cover system |
| One time/ perpetual license | Multi-year contract | dryQUBE - Dry batch digester |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Asset-based Financing |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Private Equity Funding |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels5 records
Qube Renewables product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Qube Renewables designs, manufactures, sells, and installs proprietary small-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) systems that convert biodegradable waste into biogas and digestate bio-fertiliser. Its portfolio includes six modular product lines (bioQUBE, quickQUBE, lagoonQUBE, powerQUBE, dryQUBE, miniQUBE) plus CHP generators, sold or hired direct and via a global network of Registered Collaborators, with turn-key installation and project financing offered.
Product overview
Qube Renewables is a UK-based company that designs and builds small-scale anaerobic digestion systems marketed as 'flat pack' renewable energy plants. The product portfolio consists of six modular biogas solutions: bioQUBE (wet digestion in shipping containers for food/drink industry), quickQUBE (portable PVC-based system for military/humanitarian use), powerQUBE (CHP generator 3-50kW), lagoonQUBE (floating lagoon covers for agricultural biogas capture), dryQUBE (batch dry digestion for fibrous agricultural waste), and miniQUBE (manual digester for remote developing world locations). These products convert biodegradable waste into biogas for cooking, heating, electricity generation, and vehicle fuel, plus digestate fertilizer. The company operates through a global network of Registered Collaborators for installation and support.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- bioQUBE: Robust, modular small scale anaerobic digester in 20ft or 40ft shipping containers for processing wet waste from food and drink industry
- quickQUBE
- powerQUBE
- lagoonQUBE
- dryQUBE
- miniQUBE
Products and services
- bioQUBE Robust, modular small-scale anaerobic digester built into 20ft or 40ft shipping containers for processing wet waste, most usually from the food and drink industry. Plug-and-play system with integrated heating and stirring, control panel for automation, and remote operation via an app; designed to start producing gas in days.
- quickQUBE Easy-to-transport and deploy small-scale anaerobic digestion system using a flexible, hard-wearing PVC digester that packs down to NATO pallets. Scalable from 5m3 to 313m3 and deployable in hours; targeted at military, trial, and humanitarian operations.
- lagoonQUBE Flexible, removable lagoon cover that floats on lagoons, open-top tanks, settling ponds, and wastewater stores to collect latent biogas. Modular tessellating hexagonal units each covering 94m2 (11.4m diameter), low maintenance, suitable for any slurry lagoon or tank without modification.
- powerQUBE Small combined heat and power (CHP) generator ranging from 3.2kW to 50kW that can start and run on 100% biogas. Packaged into its own self-contained pod for integration with QUBE digesters or other biogas systems; operates in island mode (off-grid) or synchronised with grid supply.
- dryQUBE Anaerobic dry digester for cost-effective batch processing of high lignocellulose agricultural wastes including rice straw, silage, wheat, and rape straw. Modular solution with 60-90 day retention time, installable in approximately two weeks; targeted at agricultural markets and 200 million small-scale rice farmers globally.
- miniQUBE Simplified, scaled-down manual anaerobic digester for remote or off-grid locations in developing countries. Capacity for 19kg of waste per day (food waste, sewage, animal manures) producing up to 6 hours of cooking gas per day; built using locally sourced parts.
Quantifiable outcome
- Payback period of less than 6 years for most projects
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Companies that use Qube Renewables
Customer profileNamed customers15 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
Qube Renewables technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature6 records
Qube Renewables partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Straw Innovations LtdcorePartnership with Straw Innovations Ltd for development of dryQUBE technology for rice straw processing. Working together to address rice straw pollution in developing countries through dry anaerobic digestion.
- University of ManchestercoreAcademic research partnership for dry anaerobic digestion technology development. Collaborating on scaling down dry AD for small-scale applications.
- University of SouthamptoncoreAcademic research partnership for dry anaerobic digestion technology development. Part of consortium demonstrating new applications for dry AD.
- LoowattminorCollaboration on powerQUBE CHP integration with Loowatt waterless toilet systems for combined sanitation and energy solutions.
- AGE RenewablesminorUK-based collaborator deploying 5m3 quickQUBE systems for renewable energy projects.
- CCI BioenergyminorCanadian channel partner for QUBE technology deployment in North America.
Scale indicators6 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Qube Renewables competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Cambrian Innovation: US-based small-scale AD and water treatment company targeting industrial food and beverage producers. Comparable to Qube on small-scale industrial AD, though Cambrian leans toward EcoVolt reactor systems plus a service/PPM model rather than containerized hardware sales.
- HomeBiogas: Israel-based developer of small-scale anaerobic digestion systems for households, small farms and off-grid communities. Directly comparable to Qube's miniQUBE/quickQUBE in target customer (small waste producers, developing markets) and modular hardware model.
- Clearfleau: UK-based provider of small-to-medium scale on-site anaerobic digestion systems for food and beverage processors. Directly comparable to Qube's bioQUBE use case for British Sugar, Cook Food, and similar food/drink enterprise customers.
- Biolectric: Belgian manufacturer of small-scale anaerobic digestion and CHP systems aimed at dairy and livestock farms. Closest functional peer to Qube's bioQUBE and lagoonQUBE, serving European agriculture with farm-scale AD + powerQUBE-type CHP bundles.
- Puxin Bioenergy: China-based manufacturer of small-scale household and farm biogas systems with strong distribution in Asia. Comparable to Qube's miniQUBE in serving smallholder agricultural and rural off-grid markets at very low price points.
Broad incumbents
- Anaergia: Canada-headquartered global AD and resource recovery company serving municipal and industrial waste streams. Overlaps with Qube in technology and end markets but competes at a much larger project scale and with a broader service portfolio.
- Clarke Energy: UK-based distributor and integrator of gas engine CHP and biogas power solutions (including Jenbacher/INNIO). Comparable to Qube's powerQUBE business and a likely overlap in on-site biogas-to-power customers in the UK and Ireland.
- Brightmark Energy: US-based waste-to-energy platform with anaerobic digestion, RNG and plastics-to-fuel projects. Operates at a much larger scale than Qube but competes for the same food waste, agricultural waste, and landfill diversion mandates.
- 2G Energy: German manufacturer of small-to-medium scale CHP units (20kW to 4MW) including gas engine CHPs designed for biogas. Comparable to Qube's powerQUBE CHP product line and a potential competitor in the small-scale biogas-to-power segment.
- Nature Energy: Denmark-based large-scale biogas/RNG operator running industrial AD plants on agricultural and industrial waste. Comparable in feedstock-to-biogas value chain but operates at centralized scale well above Qube's small-site focus.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat3 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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Qube Renewables leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles2 records
Qube Renewables subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries2 records
Qube Renewables funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Qube Renewables M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about Qube Renewables
What does Qube Renewables do?
Qube Renewables designs, manufactures, sells, and installs proprietary small-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) systems that convert biodegradable waste into biogas and digestate bio-fertiliser. Its portfolio includes six modular product lines (bioQUBE, quickQUBE, lagoonQUBE, powerQUBE, dryQUBE, miniQUBE) plus CHP generators, sold or hired direct and via a global network of Registered Collaborators, with turn-key installation and project financing offered.
Is Qube Renewables a public or private company?
Qube Renewables is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was Qube Renewables founded?
Qube Renewables was founded in 2012. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Qube Renewables based?
Qube Renewables is headquartered in Taunton, United Kingdom, in the Europe region.
How does Qube Renewables make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Equipment Sales are the primary driver. The others are installation Services, equipment Hire and project Financing.
Who are Qube Renewables's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Cambrian Innovation, HomeBiogas, Clearfleau, Biolectric and Puxin Bioenergy. Broad incumbents are Anaergia, Clarke Energy, Brightmark Energy, 2G Energy and Nature Energy.
Does Qube Renewables have an API?
No public API is recorded for Qube Renewables.
What industry is Qube Renewables in?
Qube Renewables's product category is Small-scale Anaerobic Digestion / Biogas Systems. Its primary akta.pro industry code is EUAAAEAA, Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Biogas Plants (Agricultural, Industrial & Municipal). Its NAICS code is 333413 and its SIC code is 4991.