Switzerland Energy Resource

Switzerland has the tallest dams in Europe, among which The Mauvoisin Dam, in the Alps. The most important domestic source of energy in Switzerland is Hydroelectricity. The energy resources in Switzerland are mainly renewable from Hydropower and biomass. Apart from this, the country has few indigenous energy resources: petroleum, gas and nuclear fuel is imported. Hydropower and biomass only accounts for around 15% of total overall energy consumption as the other 85% of energy used is imported.

Switzerland electricity- generating network

It is nearly CO2-free. A study published in 2009 showed that the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) due to the electricity consumed in Switzerland are seven times higher than the emissions of carbon dioxide due to the electricity produced in Switzerland. The main source of electricity generated in Switzerland is from hydropower plants and from nuclear power plants. Two anti-nuclear initiatives were turned down on 18 May 2003. The construction of new nuclear power plants and electricity without Nuclear, this was aimed by  Moratorium Plus which results as 41.6% supported the former and 33.7% supported electricity without Nuclear.

  
After the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in 2011 plans for a nuclear power plant in Canton of Bern have been put on hold. THE Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) is within the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and communications (DETEC) and SFOE is responsible for all questions related to energy supply and energy use. The agency is supporting the 2000-watt society initiative to cut the nation’s energy use by more than half by the year 2050.

Natural energy

The Swiss government plans to end its use of natural energy, On 25 May 2011 the Swiss government announced that this will be done in the next 2 or 3 decades. “To ensure a secure and an autonomous supply of energy the government has voted for a phase-out”, Energy Minister Doris Leuthard said that day at a press conference in Bern. “Fukushima showed that the risk of nuclear power is too high, which in turn has also increased the cost of this energy form”. In 2019 the first reactor would reportedly be taken offline and the last one in 2034.