In 2011, Switzerland's final energy consumption sank by 6.5% to 852,330 terajoules compared to 2010. The warm weather experienced in 2011 had a significant effect on Swiss energy consumption.

In 2010, Switzerland's overall energy consumption rose to the new record level of 911,550 terajoules, an increase of 4.4% over 2009.

Swiss electricity consumers will continue to pay a surcharge of 0.45 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity in 2010 to fund the production of green energy, the Federal Office of Energy announced today.

Electricity consumption in Switzerland increased by 2.3% in 2008 to 58.7 billion kilowatt hours (kWh), a new record for electricity consumption in one year.

In the 2009 March session, Parliament agreed to the second stabilisation programme put forward by the Swiss Federal Council in support of the Swiss economy. To this end, it has approved additional credit totalling 710 million francs for 2009, 60 million of which will flow into three support programmes in the energy sector.

The subsidisation fund for green electricity has run dry. There have been so many registrations for compensatory feed-in remuneration (KEV) since May 2008 that the total cost ceiling for KEV has been reached.

In the first six months since the start of registration for the compensatory feed-in remuneration scheme, 5,426 plants had already applied.