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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51 datasets found

  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and direction at a height of 75 metres above the ground

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

    The Wind Atlas of Switzerland describes the wind conditions at five different heights above the ground: 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 metres. The data are based on a nation-wide...

    Last updated: October 23, 2019

    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • renewable-energy-source
    • wind-power
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and direction at a height of 50 metres above the ground

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

    The Wind Atlas of Switzerland describes the wind conditions at five different heights above the ground: 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 metres. The data are based on a nation-wide...

    Last updated: October 23, 2019

    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • renewable-energy-source
    • wind-power
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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
    • API
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • energy
    • renewable-energy-source
    • water-power
    • 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
  • Sustainable potential of 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. 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
  • Suitability of roofs for the use of solar energy

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

    Solar energy that reaches the earth’s surface can be utilised with the aid of the two established solar technologies, photovoltaics (electricity) and solar thermal energy, for the...

    Last updated: January 11, 2023

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • energy-resources
    • renewable-energy-source
    • solar-energy
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Suitability of façades for the use of solar energy

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

    The sun's energy that reaches the Earth's surface can be used, via two proven forms of solar technology – photovoltaics (electric current) and solar thermal energy (heat) – to...

    Last updated: January 11, 2023

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • API
    • renewable-energy-source
    • solar-energy
    • energy-source
    • energy-resources
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Heating with renewables: Apartment blocks with more than 6 apartments

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

    A ‘renewable heating' advice service is available to building owners who have oil, gas or electric heating and who wish to find out which renewable low-carbon heat source is most...

    Last updated: December 13, 2022

    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • GPKG
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • energy-source-material
  • Wind energy concept – Swiss federal government basic map of main areas with wind-power potential

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

    The wind energy concept is a concept in accordance with Art. 13 of the Swiss Spatial Planning Act (SPA, SR 700). The concept defines both the principal federal government interests...

    Last updated: September 18, 2020

    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • wind
    • planning
    • wind-power
    • renewable-energy-source
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Location and adjoining areas of pipeline systems according to the Ordnance on Protection against Major Accidents

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

    The Ordinance on Protection against Major Accidents (MAO, SR 814.012) is designed to protect the public and the environment from serious damage resulting from major accidents. It...

    Last updated: May 1, 2023

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • 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