The Finnish NGV fleet grew 32% last year

Natural gas as fuel is available in 15 Finnish cities/municipalities, all owned by private entities. Furthermore, four additional refueling stations are currently planned to be installed (three public, one private). In 2012, 5 million cubic meters of compressed bio and natural gas were sold, which is about the same amount as the year before.

Biomethane is playing an increasingly important role at Finnish CNG stations. Overall, renewable natural gas is available at 16 of the 18 natural gas filling stations and accounts for 17 % of the total methane used in Finnish NGVs. The local gas company Gasum started to inject biomethane into the natural gas grid in October 2011 and began offering it as a transport fuel.

The Finnish gas market is also supplemented with LNG, which is produced in a small-scale LNG plant (20.000 t/a) with storage capacity of 3x700m3.

Finland is highly interested in LNG and L-CNG stations due to the fact that the natural gas network is somewhat limited and on the other hand LNG marine projects seem promising to create a substantial LNG market in the country.

Source: NGVA Europe.