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Gasum Oy

Gasum is a Nordic gas sector and energy market expert that together with its partners, promotes development towards a carbon-neutral future.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Merja Kyllönen (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Feb 2025 · Eurooppalaisen kaasumarkkinan nykytilanne ja tulevaisuuden näkymiä

Meeting with Aura Salla (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Feb 2025 · Future Perspectives and Opportunities in the Gas Market

Meeting with Elsi Katainen (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Oct 2024 · Kaasumarkkinat ja biokaasu

Meeting with Karin Karlsbro (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Oct 2024 · Energiomställningen

Meeting with Emma Wiesner (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Oct 2024 · Biometan i transportsektorn

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy) and TotalEnergies SE and

20 Dec 2022 · Energy Platform. Bulgargaz, SPP, EPH, DEPA, Geoplin, Eesti Gaas, Enovos, DEFA, Conexus Baltic Grid and GOGC participated as well.

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

20 Dec 2022 · EU Energy Platform; Bulgargaz, SPP, EPH, DEPA, Geoplin, Eesti Gaas, Enovos, DEFA, Conexus Baltic Grid, GOGC participated as well.

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and Neste Oyj and

9 Jun 2022 · climate leadership from businesses

Meeting with Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean) and Miltton Europe

17 Nov 2021 · Role of natural gas and renewable gases in the European Green Deal, especially with view to the Fit for 55 Package proposals related to alternative fuels and maritime transport

Response to Revision of the CO2 emission standards for cars and vans

5 Nov 2021

Gasum welcomes strict requirements in the EU’s CO2 emission performance standards, but we believe that EU legislation should be built around research-based well-to-wheel or life-cycle analysis on climate emissions. We are very critical of the persisting with the tailpipe approach, as proposed by the Commission. This is an outdated and misguided approach that steers towards specific technologies rather than towards reduced climate impact and improved energy efficiency. The proposal is competition-distorting and far from technology neutral. It also misses its primary objective: to guide towards reduced climate emissions and away from fossil fuels. One consequence of the proposal is that renewable, sustainable alternatives, such as biomethane, are excluded from the market and denied the opportunity to contribute to the mitigation of climate change. It is in sharp contrast to REDII and scientific findings showing that, from all combinations of fuel/energy carriers and powertrains explored, biomethane represents one of the absolute lowest greenhouse gas intensive routes (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/jec-well-wheels-report-v5). The European Commission's own science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), asserts that well-to-wheel analysis is required to properly assess the climate impact of different technologies. Basing policy objectives and instruments on tailpipe emissions only, as the Commission proposes, is contrary to research recommendations. The new initiatives within “Fit for 55” – FuelEU Maritime and RefuelEU Aviation – propose GHG intensity and well-to-wake calculations. We welcome this research-based approach. These initiatives also highlight very well the illogicality of persisting with a tailpipe approach in road transport policies. The crediting scheme and carbon correction factor (CCF) have been dismissed far too lightly by the Commission. It is vital that such a mechanism be introduced so that a more accurate and technology neutral assessment of climate impact can be incorporated in the CO2 emission performance standards. In terms of environmental impact, the Commission ascertains that CO2 emissions (when measured under WLTP) increase with the CCF option. This is hardly surprising, since WLTP is based on a tailpipe measurement of emissions and thus does not capture the positive effects of renewable fuels. This is remarkably careless; in fact, it means that the entire impact assessment is founded on completely unsound and unscientific premises. We are convinced that all renewable and sustainable alternatives are needed to cope with the immense challenge of climate change and to reach our common environmental goals. There is not a single solution that can replace petrol and diesel as used today. Biomethane (biogas), renewable hydrogen, renewable electricity, and other renewable and sustainable alternatives are all necessary. Finally, replacing petrol and diesel with biomethane would not only benefit the environment and mitigate climate change directly. It would also stimulate vital investment and encourage environmental improvement in other industrial sectors – such as agriculture and waste handling – as a result of the additional benefits that biogas delivers: the recycling of plant and soil nutrients, reduced eutrophication, and improved biodiversity. Furthermore, production of biogas and biofertilizer leads to socio-economic benefits such as improved security of supply, increased rural development, job creation, and promotion of innovation. Among alternative fuels, only biogas has demonstrated, to date, such a deep and wide range of benefits to society. The Commission’s proposal based on tailpipe emissions hampers any efforts to advance biogas for mobility. Hence it also prevents the EU from taking advantage of all the cost-effective solutions that biogas has to offer in the transition to a sustainable society in a broad perspective.
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Meeting with Risto Artjoki (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and Miltton Europe

30 Jan 2019 · Circular economy

Meeting with Risto Artjoki (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and Miltton Europe

10 Oct 2018 · Bioenergy

Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska) and Miltton Europe

10 Oct 2018 · biogas market

Meeting with Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and Miltton Europe

19 Mar 2018 · Circular economy action plan; energy union package; and decarbonisation of transport

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President) and Confederation of Finnish Industries EK and

11 May 2017 · Future outlook of the Energy Union package

Meeting with Silvia Bartolini (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)

3 May 2017 · LNG and bio-LNG in maritime and road transport

Meeting with Alessandro Carano (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

3 May 2017 · Gas in transport use both in FIN and Sweeden

Meeting with Alessandro Carano (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

3 May 2017 · Alternative Fuels

Meeting with Dominique Ristori (Director-General Energy)

3 Dec 2015 · Gas

Meeting with Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

29 Oct 2015 · TTIP

Meeting with Bernd Biervert (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

27 May 2015 · LNG Strategy

Meeting with Heidi Jern (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

27 May 2015 · Energy Union

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President) and

28 Jan 2015 · Energy Policy

Meeting with Dominique Ristori (Director-General Energy)

27 Jan 2015 · Nordic gas market