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Introduce biogas for heavy-duty freight vehicles

Turku (2016)
Scale: City Level
Within this measure, the City of Turku cooperated with relevant stakeholders in order to promote the use of biogas for heavy duty freight vehicles.
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Turku

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CIVITAS ECCENTRIC

Challenge / Goal

The use case is to support the growth of the biogas ecosystem in the region of Turku by introducing Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDV) operated by liquefied biogas (LBG) to replace traditional diesel trucks. By using renewable energy instead of fossil fuels it is possible to reduce emissions from carbon dioxide (CO2) NOx and particulate matter (PM).

Solutions

On the one hand, Gasum Ltd.  invests in two or three biogas trucks and uses them in the company’s own waste and organic fertilizer logistics as an example of short-distance transport, while the City of Turku promotes the biogas use by 2 – 3 delivery vans or similar which operates, e.g., food transport in the City area.

One LBG truck runs between the Turku Waste Water Treatment Plant and Gasum’s biogas production plant transporting sludge that are processed to biogas. The other truck delivers nutrition residue from the biogas plant to local farmers.The trucks are refilled at the local public biogas filling station.

Relevant information from the operation of these trucks and vans is gathered and used for the promotion of LBG production and used in the future (e.g., filling, use, consumption, power differences and maintenance needs against traditional diesel trucks and vans)

 

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Implementers

Stadt Turku, Gasum

Service Providers

Stadt Turku, Gasum

    Main Benefits

  • Increasing share of renewables,

  • Reducing use of fossils,

  • Reducing local air pollution,

  • Reducing GHG emissions,