Finnish pipeline gas market opens up and Gasgrid Finland begins operations
The first day of 2020 will see the Finnish gas market open up to competition and the wholesale of gas and transmission network will be unbundled from each other. At the same time, the new gas transmission network company, Gasgrid Finland, which will be unbundled from energy company Gasum into a separate company, will begin operations.From the beginning of 2020, the pipeline gas market in Finland will be open to competition. The reform has been driven by the new Natural Gas Market Act, which entered into force in 2018, and under which the transmission and sale of gas must be unbundled from