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  • Waste incineration plants (MWI)

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    Waste incineration is the burning of combustible waste components to reduce the volume of the waste while using the energy it contains.In 2017, Switzerland had 30 municipal waste...

    Last updated: December 31, 2020

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • energy-resources
    • energy-recovery
    • waste
    • incineration-of-waste
    • waste-disposal
    • energy
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Sustainable potential of woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzerland at the municipality level

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Woody types of biomass were...

    Last updated: September 6, 2018

    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • energy-resource
    • energy-resources
    • energy
    • biomass-energy
    • biomass
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Sustainable potential of non-woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzerland at the municipality level

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Non-woody types of biomass were...

    Last updated: September 6, 2018

    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • energy-resource
    • energy-resources
    • energy
    • biomass-energy
    • biomass
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Wind energy plants

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    Wind energy plants utilise the kinetic energy of airflow to rotate turbine blades. The mechanical energy that is produced in this way is then converted by a generator into...

    Last updated: December 31, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • energy-resources
    • wind-power
    • wind-power-station
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    The geodata product ‘Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland’ is the result of a GIS-based analysis carried out in 2012 as part of the research project 102835 ‘Survey...

    Last updated: June 1, 2012

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • energy
    • renewable-energy-source
    • water-power
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Electricity production plants

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    An electricity production plant is a technical facility for generating electricity. It is in the public interest to have a spatial overview of all electricity production plants in...

    Last updated: December 21, 2021

    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • INTERLIS
    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • official-geodata
    • production-and-industrial-faci...
    • energy-resources
    • utility-and-governmental-servi...

  • Reserved zones for lines with a rated voltage of 220kV or higher

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    A reserved zone serves to keep an area free for future lines. In a reserved zone, no projects that could interfere with the construction of a new line may be undertaken for a...

    Last updated: October 14, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • energy-resources
    • utility-and-governmental-servi...
    • production-and-industrial-faci...

  • Building lines for heavy current installations

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    A building line secures the space required for the operation, renovation or expansion of a heavy current installation. No construction that interferes with the operation,...

    Last updated: October 14, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • production-and-industrial-faci...
    • energy-resources
    • utility-and-governmental-servi...

  • Statistics on hydropower plants (WASTA)

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    The "Statistics on hydropower plants" (WASTA) contain data concerning the Swiss hydropower plants with an output of at least 300 kW. This includes technical data relating to...

    Last updated: December 31, 2020

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • energy-resources
    • hydrography
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Dams under federal supervision

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    The dataset contains fundamental information about dams in Switzerland which come under the direct supervision of the Swiss Confederation. This includes data concerning the...

    Last updated: July 20, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • energy-resources
    • hydrography
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Sectoral Plan Deep Geological Repositories – consultation stage 2

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Geography, Territory and environment

    Most of the radioactive waste in Switzerland comes from the country's five nuclear power plants, though a certain amount is also produced in the healthcare sector, in industry and...

    Last updated: November 22, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • official-geodata
    • utility-and-governmental-servi...
    • geology
    • land-use

  • Sectoral Plan Deep Geological Repositories

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Geography, Territory and environment

    Most of the radioactive waste in Switzerland comes from the country's five nuclear power plants, though a certain amount is also produced in the healthcare sector, in industry and...

    Last updated: November 22, 2018

    • SERVICE
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • land-use
    • utility-and-governmental-servi...
    • geology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Compensation for losses due to the use of hydraulic power (CLHPO)

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    Protected areas under the terms of the Ordinance of 25 October 1995 on Compensation for Losses due to the Use of Hydraulic Power (CLHPO), based on contractual regulations between...

    Last updated: September 8, 2011

    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • official-geodata
    • energy-resources
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Biogas plants

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    Biogas plants convert organic matter into gas through a fermentation process. The resulting gas mixture is composed mainly of energy-rich methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2)....

    Last updated: December 31, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • atos-atom-opensearch
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • energy-resources
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Thermal networks: demand from residential and commercial buildings

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    The demand for heat and cooling is a key element in the strategic planning of thermal networks. Building a thermal network is only viable if sufficient sales turnover can be...

    Last updated: October 3, 2018

    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Thermal networks (local heating, district heating, district cooling)

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    Thermal networks – including district heating-, local heating- or district cooling networks – are systems that provide a number of separate buildings with thermal energy. They...

    Last updated: January 19, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • INTERLIS
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Electricity Transmission Lines sectoral plan

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Geography, Territory and environment

    The Electricity Transmission Lines sectoral plan is an overlying federal government planning and co-ordination instrument for the expansion and further development of the...

    Last updated: June 5, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Thermal networks: demand from industry

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    In strategic planning, heat demand is used to identify large connected areas that may be appropriate for a thermal network. Areas with a heat density of at least 700 MWh/a per...

    Last updated: October 3, 2018

    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

  • Thermal networks: heat and cooling sources

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Culture, media, information society, sport, Energy, Geography, Territory and environment

    Heat and cooling sources are local, renewable and CO2-free energy sources which may be of interest for heat production in thermal networks. Nowadays, only renewable or CO2-free...

    Last updated: October 3, 2018

    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-pla...
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infr...

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