Finland’s first industrial-scale liquefied biogas production plant inaugurated in Nurmo
In Finland, Atria said that the Suomen Lantakaasu’s biogas plant was inaugurated in Nurmo. The plant is Finland’s first industrial-scale production facility for liquefied biogas and one of the most significant industrial investments supporting the green transition in South Ostrobothnia in recent years.
The biogas plant has been developed by Nurmon Bioenergia Oy, which is majority-owned by Suomen Lantakaasu Oy, with Atria Finland as a minority shareholder.
At the Nurmo plant, manure from local farms, along with other agricultural and food industry by-products, is processed into renewable fuel for transport and biofertilizers that recycle valuable nutrients, Atria said.
The plant has an annual production capacity of approximately 100 gigawatt-hours of liquefied biogas, equivalent to around 10 million liters of diesel. The company aims to build a nationwide biogas ecosystem and, in the future, produce a total of one terawatt-hour of domestic renewable energy annually. Thanks to its high energy density, liquefied biogas is particularly well suited to heavy-duty transport and provides a fossil-free alternative to diesel, the firm added.
The plant is currently producing raw biogas, and the next phase will be to begin liquefaction, which is scheduled to start later this autumn.
Category: Fuels
