Room: Poster Area
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Time: 16:15 - 17:15 CEST
Session code 2BV.7
Biomass strategies and policies
Current Status and Future of Biogas in Finland
Short Introductive summary
In Finnish rural areas, one option to reduce the dependency on fossil energy and imported electricity is to increase the production and utilization of biogas and biomethane. Finnish national target is to increase the biogas production to 4 TWh by 2030. Currently the production of is 1 TWh. There are total of 137 biogas plants in Finland in 2025. The aim of the paper is to evaluate how biogas and biomethane are produced and consumed currently in Finland and what are the production volumes in the future. Currently there are 137 biogas plants in Finland and 40 of them was constructed between 2021 and 2024. 26 of these plants were farm-scale biogas plants, six were communities biowaste processing plants, three were food industry related plants and three were municipal sewage treatment plants.
Presenter
Antti KARHUNEN
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, LUT School of Energy Systems - Bioenergy, FINLAND
Presenter's biography
Antti Karhunen, M. Sc. (eng.), works as a projects researcher at LUT University. His main research subjects are biomass availability and utilization, energy production, and analyzes concerning regional and national energy supply.
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Co-authors:
M. Laihanen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, FINLAND
T. Ranta, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, FINLAND
Session reference: 2BV.7.4