swissTLM-Map (grey)

Regions and cities, Environment

swissTLM-Map is an automatically generated map which offers a complement to the national maps in the scale range 1:5'000 to 1:10'000. swissTLM-Map is based on the data of the to...

swissTLM-Map (color)

Regions and cities, Environment

swissTLM-Map is an automatically generated map which offers a complement to the national maps in the scale range 1:5'000 to 1:10'000. swissTLM-Map is based on the data of the to...

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...

Heating with renewables: Detached homes and apartment blocks with up to 6 apa...

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...

Projects of the Coordination Office for Sustainable Mobility COMO

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 mobi...

Ortsplan farbig

Der Ortsplan ist ein Zusammenzug aus einzelnen Ebenen aus der Bodenbedeckung und den Einzelobjekten aus der amtlichen Vermessung: - Bodenbedeckung (alle Zoomstufen): befestigt, ...

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...

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...

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...

Statistics on hydropower plants (WASTA)

Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

The "Statistics on hydropower plants" (WASTA) contain data concerning the Swiss hydropower plants with an output of at least 300 kW. This includes technical data relating to asp...

Dams under federal supervision

Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

The dataset contains fundamental information about dams in Switzerland which come under the direct supervision of the Swiss Confederation. This includes data concerning the cons...

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...

Potential heat recovery from wastewater treatment plants

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 th...

Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Frequency of meteorological icing at 100 metres ab...

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 t...

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...

Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland

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 ‘Surve...

Sustainable potential of non-woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzer...

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 inve...

Sustainable potential of woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzerland...

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 investig...

Suitability of roofs for the use of solar energy

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 t...

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...

Geographical UAS zones of Switzerland

Regions and cities, Transport

A UAS geographical zone is a portion of airspace designated by the competent authority in which the operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) is permitted, restricted or for...

Mountain landing sites: specially designated landing sites situated above 110...

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...

Civil and military aerodromes

Regions and cities, Transport

Aerodromes are facilities defined in the Sectoral aviation infrastructure plan as intended for aircraft take-off and landing. The official list of aerodromes and heliports autho...

Built-up areas as defined in Swiss civil aviation legislation

Regions and cities, Transport

In Swiss civil aviation legislation, the term "built-up areas" refers to the definition of areas, in both quantitative terms and with respect to aviation criteria, that is appli...

Geological Atlas of Switzerland 1:25000

Regions and cities, Environment

The sheets of the Geological Atlas of Switzerland (GA25) give detailed information about the uppermost layers of the subsurface structure. Geological formations are represented ...