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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52 datasets found

  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and direction at a height of 150 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Baulinien Starkstromanlagen V2.0 OeREB

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Regions and cities, 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

    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • oereb
    • building-line
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • energy
  • Projektierungszonen Starkstromanlagen V2.0 OeREB

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Regions and cities, 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

    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • project-planning-zone
    • oereb
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • energy
  • 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
  • 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