Currently Switzerland has 5 nuclear reactors which generates 40% of its electricity, but an initiative submitted by the Green Party to phase-out nuclear energy by 2029 has secured enough support for a national referendum, as the Swiss Federal Chancellery has announced that 107,533 of the 108,227 signatures presented in a petition in November are valid.
read more... 24/01/2013
The decision to phase out nuclear power is of strategic importance for Switzerland, as the nuclear disaster of Fukushima marked a critical juncture in Swiss energy policy.
read more... 03/10/2012
The Swiss parliament decided in 2011 to phase out all the country’s nuclear power following the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in Japan.
read more... 26/07/2012
Switzerland has established a goal to reduce its CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020, facing many challenges while it also decided to phase out nuclear power aftermath Fukushima accident in Japan in March 2011.
read more... 04/07/2012
At the beginning of February, Switzerland’s Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications announced the new feed-in tariffs for renewable energy considering steadily changing costs. The new feed-in tariffs for photovoltaics, wind power and biomass from timber came into force on March 1, 2012. PV power will receive lower feed-in tariffs by 10 percent. Wind power feed-in tariffs were tweaked, while woody biomass power will benefit of slightly higher FITs. Other technologies will get the same feed-in tariffs.
read more... 21/03/2012