ENTSOG GRIP BEMIP 2014-2023 / Main Report

National demand

Country: Finland Normal conditions: 0°C Gross calorific value: 11.08 kWh /m³

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Peak demand mcm / day

24.0 26.0 26.0 26.0 26.0 26.0 28.0 28.0 28.0 28.0

GWh / day

266.0 288.2 288.2 288.2 288.2 288.2 310.3 310.3 310.3 310.3

Yearly demand bcm / year

3.4 3.8 3.7 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.7

TWh / year

37.8 42.6 41.2 41.8 41.3 41.5 41.5 41.5 41.5 41.5

Table 2.1: Forecasts for national demand, Finland

Gasum’s subsidiary Gas Exchange Ltd maintains an online marketplace for natural gas short term market trading. Trading takes place in the Gas Exchange online service, which is open around the clock every day of the year. The number of trans- actions during the year 2013 was 101,000, which corresponds to an average of 277 executed transactions a day. In 2013, 6.1% of whole gas consumption in Finland was sold through the Gas Exchange. Gasum aims to become the leading producer of bio-based gases in Finland. Gasum has introduced biogas production facilities in conjunction with the natural gas trans- mission network so that biogas generated from biomass can, after processing, be fed into the transmission network and supplied to customers. Gasum biogas is the first transport fuel to be granted the Nordic Ecolabel and the Made in Finland label denoting Finnish origin. In 2011, biogas production was 146mcm and in 2012 it increased to 150.4mcm. Around 75% of biogas is produced by landfill plants and around 20% at wastewater treatment plants. Farms have small-scale reactor plants. In Finland biogas is mainly used for combined heat and power production. The year 2011 saw the completion of Finland’s first biogas production plant (in Kouvola) that enables the injection of purified biogas into the natural gas transmission network and in December 2012 the biogas facility in Suomenoja, Espoo started to inject biogas to the grid. Finland’s largest planned biogas production and refinement plant in Lahti, is expected to be operational in 2014. Techno-economic potential for biogas (biomass fractions and wood gasification) is about 18TWh in Finland. While the EU has set the obligation of a 10% share of renewable energy in transport fuels for 2020, Finland has set a higher national target of 20%. As the Finnish road transport fuel usage is altogether about 50TWh in 2020, this means that in future Finland could easily reach the 20% renewable road transport fuel target merely with biogas. Synthetic biogas is produced using methods such as wood gasification. The future scenario for synthetic biogas in Finland could include 3 large bio-SNG facilities that are capable of producing approximately 5TWh / a of energy. Gasum together with Metsä Fibre and Helsingin Energia is currently planning a biorefinery for bio-SNG production in Joutseno, southeastern Finland. The biorefinery would produce bio-SNG from renewable wood raw material for transmission along Gasum’s gas net- work to usage sites such as Helsinki Energy’s Vuosaari power plant. The maximum production capacity of the bio-SNG plant planned in Joutseno would be 200MW. Power-to-gas is the functional description of the conversion of electrical power into a gaseous energy carrier such as hydrogen or methane. It is an efficient technology for storing the exceeding energy in the form of methane for later use. Gasum is closely following the global developments in power-to-gas technologies and has included this technology in its strategic planning. For example, the Balticconnector gas interconnector between Finland and Estonia would open up the possibility to transfer power-to-gas produced renewable energy for the markets around the Baltic Sea Region.

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