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Charging requirement scenarios
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
What charging infrastructure for plug-in electric vehicles will we need tomorrow? And where exactly? This can only be answered by knowing the future charging requirements. The “...
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Nuclear Power Plants
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Nuclear power plants are facilities for the commercial generation of electrical power from controlled nuclear fission. The four Swiss nuclear power plants have a total output of...
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Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and...
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 mode...
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Current pilot and demonstration projects of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
With its Pilot and Demonstration programme the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) promotes the development and testing of new technologies, solutions and concepts relating to...
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Wind energy plants
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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 elect...
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Waste incineration plants (MWI)
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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 wast...
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Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and...
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 mode...
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Suitability of façades for the use of solar energy
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 g...
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Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and...
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 mode...
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Heating with renewables: Apartment blocks with more than 6 apartments
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 mos...
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Thermal networks: demand from industry
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 h...
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Thermal networks: demand from residential and commercial buildings
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 gen...
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Aerial Images swisstopo infrared
Regions and cities, Environment
The aerial imagery catalogue of swisstopo includes several hundred thousand analogue aerial photographs (in colour, infrared, or black and white). They are represented by the ce...
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Aerial Images swisstopo b / w
Regions and cities, Environment
The aerial imagery catalogue of swisstopo includes several hundred thousand analogue aerial photographs (in colour, infrared, or black and white). They are represented by the ce...
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Aerial images swisstopo oblique
Regions and cities, Environment
The oblique aerial photos are a small part of the image collection of swisstopo. There are snapshots of small towns and photos of the atmosphere in the pre-alpine and alpine reg...
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Aerial Images swisstopo color
Regions and cities, Environment
The aerial imagery catalogue of swisstopo includes several hundred thousand analogue aerial photographs (in colour, infrared, or black and white). They are represented by the ce...
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Mountain landing sites: specially designated landing sites situated above...
Regions and cities, Transport
Mountain landing sites are landing fields that are located outside an aerodrome at over 1100 m altitude and that have no infrastructure. They are used for instruction and traini...
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Erdbebengefährdung für die Schweiz gemäss Sägesser & Mayer-Rosa (1978),...
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Government and public sector
Die Erdbebengefährdung für den Nachweis der Erdbebensicherheit von Stauanlagen wurde bis 2021 (siehe Basisdokument Teil B zum Nachweis der Erdbebensicherheit) basierend auf den ...
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Statistics of Switzerland's crop rotation areas 2023
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Environment
The statistics on Switzerland's crop rotation areas is based on the geodata on crop rotation areas available to the cantonal offices responsible for spatial planning as of 1.1.2...