The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) is the country's competence centre for issues relating to energy supply and energy use at the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC).

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34 datasets found

  • Thermal networks: demand from residential and commercial buildings

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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: December 31, 2013

    • GPKG
    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Sectoral Plan Deep Geological Repositories

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Regions and cities, 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

    • GPKG
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • land-use
    • utility-and-governmental-services
    • geology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Potential heat recovery from wastewater treatment plants

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) treat and purify wastewater. Wastewater is water that has been polluted through activities such as cooking, doing laundry or showering and then...

    Last updated: October 3, 2018

    • ZIP
    • GPKG
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Electricity Transmission Lines sectoral plan - consultations

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Current or past consultations of the cantons and communes as well as information and participation of the population in accordance with Art. 19 RPV of the Electricity Transmission...

    Last updated: October 2, 2023

    • WMS
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • energy
    • sectoral-plan
    • current
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • power-grid
  • Potential use of lakes and rivers for heat extraction and heat discharge

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Lakes and rivers provide a great yet largely untapped source of thermal energy. In Switzerland, this renewable source of energy source could be used for heating (heat extraction)...

    Last updated: December 31, 2018

    • GPKG
    • API
    • WMS
    • SERVICE
    • water-related-process
    • space-provided-for-waters
    • nature
    • gis-geographic-information-system
    • standing-water
    • watercourse
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • water
    • urban-environment-urban-stress
    • climate
    • energy
    • social-aspects-population
    • natural-dynamics
    • resources
    • general
    • geography
    • trade-services
    • surface-water-management
    • energy
    • water-geographic
  • Energy cities

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The Energy City label is used for certifying municipalities that develop and implement a sustainable energy policy. Municipalities that have been awarded this label promote...

    Last updated: May 29, 2024

    • WMS
    • SERVICE
    • GPKG
    • ZIP
    • API
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Sustainable potential of non-woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzerland at the municipality level

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • GPKG
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • energy-resource
    • energy-resources
    • energy
    • biomass-energy
    • biomass
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Compensation for losses due to the use of hydraulic power (CLHPO)

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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

    • GPKG
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • energy-resources
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Thermal networks: demand from industry

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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: December 31, 2013

    • GPKG
    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Thermal networks (local heating, district heating, district cooling)

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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: May 29, 2024

    • WMS
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • GPKG
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Groundwater heat utilisation potential

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The thermal energy stored in groundwater can be used for heating purposes. With groundwater heat pump systems, the heat can be extracted from the groundwater and transferred to the...

    Last updated: December 31, 2023

    • GPKG
    • API
    • WMS
    • SERVICE
    • gis-geographic-information-system
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • outline-map
    • data-infrastructure
    • groundwater-resources
    • urban-environment-urban-stress
    • climate
    • social-aspects-population
    • resources
    • general
    • geography
    • trade-services
    • research
    • geography
    • energy
    • groundwater
    • heat-physics
  • Public energy advice services

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    There is a wide variety of public energy advice services available in Switzerland. They offer impartial advice (neutral relative to products and companies) to the public in general...

    Last updated: May 29, 2024

    • WMS
    • GPKG
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • energy
    • consultation
    • consultancy
  • Projects of the Coordination Office for Sustainable Mobility COMO

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport

    The Coordination Office for Sustainable Mobility (COMO) is the central contact and coordination point and the first contact point at federal level in matters of sustainable...

    Last updated: May 29, 2024

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • GPKG
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • mobility
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Frequency of meteorological icing at 100 metres above the ground

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    In Switzerland, the mountain regions (Jura, Alps and Alpine foothills) are the most suitable regions for exploiting wind energy potential. But here, the air temperature during the...

    Last updated: May 31, 2016

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • meteorology
    • energy
    • wind-power
    • wind-power-station
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure