Gasgrid Finland Oy is a Finnish state-owned natural gas

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. Gasgrid Finland offers

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and

biogas Biogas is a mixture of gases, primarily consisting of methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste and food waste. It is a ...

transmission services and is responsible for the gas transmission system operations in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. The CEO of Gasgrid Finland is Olli Sipilä. Gasgrid Finland assumed the responsibility for gas transmission operations in Finland on 1 January 2020, when the Finnish gas market was opened for competition according to the EU Directive 2009/73/EC and the Finnish Natural Gas Market Act. The company was unbundled from

Gasum Gasum Oy is a Finnish state-owned energy company located in Espoo, Finland which imports and sells the nation's natural gas. Gasum owns 17 biogas refineries in Finland and Sweden, and is the largest processor of biodegradable waste in the N ...

, a state-majority-owned gas importer, producer, and seller. The ownership steering of Gasgrid Finland Oy is located at the

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. Gasgrid Finland owns and operates the Finnish gas transmission system across Southern Finland. Gas is imported to the Finnish gas grid through two cross-border entry points. The entry point in

Imatra Imatra is a town and municipality in southeastern Finland. Imatra is dominated by Lake Saimaa, the Vuoksi River and the border with Russia. On the other side of the border, away from the centre of Imatra, lies the Russian town of Svetogorsk. ...

is used for importing Russian natural gas into Finland (flowing until 21 May 2022, 06.00 UTC+2), and the entry point in

Ingå Ingå (; fi, Inkoo) is a municipality of Finland. Ingå is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density ...

connects the Finnish and Estonian gas grids via the

Balticconnector Balticconnector is a bi-directional natural gas pipeline between Ingå, Finland and Paldiski, Estonia. It connects Estonian and Finnish gas grids. The pipeline provides Finland with access to the Latvian natural gas storage facility at Inčukal ...

pipeline. The subsea connection enables a common gas market for Finland, Estonia and Latvia. The Hamina LNG terminal is to be connected to the Finnish gas grid in 2021. In addition, relatively small amounts of biogas is injected to the grid, and the future potential of e.g. clean synthetic gas, hydrogen and various gas-mixes are under consideration. Gasgrid Finland is a member of the

European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) is an association of Europe's transmission system operators (TSOs). ENTSOG was created on 1 December 2009 by 31 TSOs from 21 European countries. Creation of the ENTS ...

. Together with 22 other transmission system operators, Gasgrid Finland has also joined the European Hydrogen Backbone initiative.

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