Gasum is progressing towards carbon neutrality by setting new environmental targets to mitigate climate change. The company seeks to increase the availability of biogas to reach cumulative carbon emission reductions of a million tons. By 2025, Gasum intends to make 4 TWh of biogas available on the market from the company’s own production and that of certified European partners. In its own operations, Gasum aims to reduce the emissions in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and biogas production chains and to implement energy efficiency measures. Gasum announced recently in the news release. (Photo quoted from Gasum’s official website)

An essential way of reducing emissions is to increase the use of renewable biogas in road and maritime transport and, going forward, also increasingly in industry. Gasum aims to boost the availability of biogas by increasing biogas production and procurement to 4 TWh by 2025. This will make it possible to reach cumulative emission reductions of one million tons.

In addition, Gasum has set the target to reduce the emissions in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and biogas production chains by one percent a year in its own operations, and intends to implement energy efficiency measures by 2025.

Gasum is boosting biogas production capacity and availability by building new plants and increasing the procurement of biogas from the production plants of other operators. Gasum now has 9 biogas plants in Finland and 6 in Sweden. Last year,Gasum acquired a biogas plant (40 GWh/p.a.) in Skovde, Sweden. The Loha biogas plant (40 GWh/p.a.) in Finland entered commercial production in January 2021 and the Nymolla biogas plant (75 GWh/p.a.) in Sweden will enter commercial production during 2021.

Gasum is also currently building an industrial-scale manure-based biogas plant (120 GWh/p.a.) in Gotene, Sweden. This plant is scheduled to complete by the beginning of 2023. In addition, the company is also planning to build biogas plants in Borlange and Kalmar in Sweden, and in Oulu in Finland.

Biogas is a renewable energy source that can be produced from many kinds of biodegradable waste. Biogas production is a good example of fully utilizing raw materials and promoting the circular economy. Circularity is further enhanced by the fact that nutrient residues arising as a by-product in biogas production can be returned to the food chain as a fertilizer or processed for industrial needs to replace mineral or fossil nutrients and fertilizers. Use of biogas as a fuel in road transport can help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 90% compared to fossil diesel. Gasum is one of the largest producers of biogas in the Nordics.

(IRuniverse)

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