J Sainsbury joins the Prince of Wales' private estate backing the waste to energy company led by Alan Lovell, previously chief executive of UK-based renewable energy producer Infinis.

UK-based supermarket chain J Sainsbury has joined the estate of Prince Charles and other investors helping Tamar Energy, a producer of energy from organic waste, launch with £65m ($102.1m) funding.

Tamar Energy said yesterday it would develop a UK network of more than forty "anaerobic digestion [AD]" plants to generate 100MW of green electricity in the next five years.

Justin King, chief executive of J Sainsbury said: "Sainsbury’s is the UK’s leading retail user of AD so we…