The station serves both passenger cars and heavy-duty vehicles. The local port and industry brings heavy-duty traffic to the Rauma region – it is now possible to reduce its emissions with biogas.

Gasum’s newest gas filling station in the Finnish town of Rauma has been opened to customers. The station provides both liquefied and compressed gas, which means that both passenger cars and heavy-duty vehicles can be refueled at the station.

Like Gasum’s other filling stations, the Rauma station only sells biogas, as the distribution of natural gas at all Gasum filling stations in Finland has ended at the end of August.

With the opening of the new station, Gasum will offer companies operating in the area the opportunity to switch to low-emission transports using biogas, says Juho Kurra, Head of Business, Transport Finland, Gasum.

“Heavy-duty transport operators in particular have requested a gas filling station in Rauma, as it is an important logistics hub. The region has a busy port and a lot of industry, including forestry. The station also serves transport traffic along the Finnish west coast very well, as it is located in the immediate vicinity of highway number eight,” Kurra says.

The Rauma filling station is located at the address Statiivitie 2. All road fuel gas filling stations can be found on the map on Gasum’s website.

Transport plays an important role in reducing transport emissions

By using biogas, it is possible to significantly reduce emissions from heavy-duty vehicles in a cost-effective way. The lifecycle emissions of fully renewable biogas are on average 90 per cent lower than those of conventional fossil fuels, such as diesel.

Logistics and transport companies play an important role in reducing transport emissions, as emissions from heavy-duty transport account for approximately 40 per cent of total transport emissions in Finland.  The emissions of a heavy-duty vehicle are many times higher than those of a passenger car because of higher fuel consumption and long distances driven.

Gasum’s strategic goal is to bring seven terawatt hours (TWh) of renewable gas per year to the Nordic market by 2027, which is approximately four times more than at present. The amount would mean an annual total emission reduction of 1.8 million tons of carbon dioxide for Gasum’s customers.