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Policy

• Energy policy
  • The 2030 Agenda
• Energy perspectives 2050+
• Energy Strategy 2050
  • What is the Energy Strategy 2050?
  • Initial package of measures
    • Energy efficiency
    • Renewable energies
    • Nuclear energy
    • Electricity grids
    • Further measures
  • Other business
  • Documentation
    • Energy perspectives 2035
    • Energy perspectives 2050
• Cantons and municipalities
• International energy policy
• Federal referenda relating to energy
• Legislation governing energy
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Electricity
    • Low-voltage installations
  • Nuclear energy and protection against radiation
  • Pipelines
  • CO2

Efficiency

• Mobility
  • CO2 emission regulations
    • Cars
      • Questions & Answers
      • Calculation of penalties cars
      • Tool for calculating the penalty for small importers of cars
    • Light commercial and light articulated vehicles
      • Questions & Answers
      • Calculation of penalties LCV
      • Tool for calculating the penalty for small importers LCV
  • The Energy label for cars
    • Consumption catalogue
    • Production of the label
      • Visual presentation
    • Questions & Answers
    • Legal bases
    • Financial benefits for efficient vehicles
  • Energy label for tyres
    • Questions & Answers
    • Tyre list
  • Alternative drives
  • Key data for vehicles
• Energy labels and efficiency requirements
  • Household appliances
    • Refrigerators and freezers
    • Washing machines
    • Tumble dryers
    • Dishwashers
    • Ovens
    • Hobs
    • Range hoods
    • Coffee machines
    • Vacuum cleaner
    • Room air conditioners
  • Electronic equipment
    • Standby and external power supplies
    • Computer and server
    • Set-Top Boxes
    • Electronic displays
  • Lamps
  • Building services
    • Water heaters and hot water storage tanks
    • Space and combination heaters
    • Ventilation systems
    • Local space heaters
  • Commercial appliances
    • Professional refrigerated storage cabinets
    • Refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function
    • Commercial kitchen appliances
    • Commercial dishwashers
  • Electrical machines
    • Electric drives and motors
    • Transformers
    • Welding equipment
  • Motor vehicles
  • Tyres
  • Voluntary labels
    • Windows
    • Bathroom products
  • Market surveillance
• Buildings

Supply

• Electricity supply
  • Electricity produced from renewable energy sources
    • Connection conditions for producers of electricity from renewable energy sources
  • Federal Act on a Secure Electricity Supply from Renewable Energy Sources
  • Federal Electricity Supply Act
    • WACC - calculatory interest rate
  • Electricity supply security
  • Winter reserve
  • Electricity labelling and certificate of origin
    • Questions & Answers
  • Electricity networks
    • Electricity Networks Strategy
      • Scenario framework
      • Overhead lines versus underground cables
    • Smart grids
    • Bundling of infrastructure
    • Licensing procedures
      • Transmission Lines sectoral plan
      • Planning approval procedure for electrical systems
  • Energy negotiations between Switzerland and the EU
• Gas supply
  • The Federal Gas Supply Act
• Hydrogen and Power-to-X
• Renewable energy
  • Hydropower
    • Large-scale hydropower
    • Small-scale hydropower
    • Water usage levy
  • Solar energy
    • Large-scale photovoltaic systems
  • Energy from biomass
  • Wind energy
  • Geothermal energy
• Nuclear energy
  • Tasks of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy
    • Global use of nuclear energy
  • Safety and security of nuclear power plants
  • Emergency protection
  • Nuclear energy liability
  • Decommissioning
  • Radioactive Waste
    • Waste disposal principles
      • Deep geological repositories
      • Legal framework
      • Waste management programme
      • Demonstration of feasibility of disposal of radioactive waste
      • Agneb
      • Financing
    • Deep Geological Repositories Sectoral Plan
      • Stage 1
      • Stage 2
      • Stage 3
      • Regional participation
      • Surface infrastructure
      • Nuclear Waste Management Advisory Board
    • Site proposal by the Nagra
    • Geological investigations
    • Publications
      • Deep Geological repositories Newsletters
      • Focus Tiefenlager
      • Further publications
      • Press releases
• Fossil fuels
• Energy efficiency
  • Fuel cells
  • Cogeneration
  • District heat
  • Ambient heat
    • Questions & Answers
  • Thermal energy storage
  • Electricity technologies research programme
  • Reimbursement of grid surcharge
  • Research programme Mobility
  • Companies
• Supervision and Safety
  • Decommissioning and waste disposal funds
  • Commissions and inspectorates
    • Federal Nuclear Safety Commission NSC
  • Dams
    • Guidelines and tools
    • Dam safety supervision
    • Questions & Answers
    • e-form
  • Pipeline systems
    • Accident procedure
    • Installations overseen by the cantons
    • Third-party construction projects
  • Non-proliferation
    • Safeguards
      • Safeguards in Switzerland
      • Facilities and Locations Outside Facilities
    • Export Control
    • Bilateral agreements
    • Other activities
  • Risk management
• Digitalization in the energy sector
  • PERLAS
  • Energy Management Systems Market Overview
• Statistics and Geodata
  • Energy statistics
    • Overall energy statistics
    • Electricity statistics
    • Sector statistics
    • Analysis of energy consumption by specific use
    • Energy consumption by determining factors
    • Adjustment for climatic conditions
  • Key data for vehicles
    • New vehicle fleet (annual figures)
    • Alternative drives (quarterly and annual figures)
    • Key figures about the charging infrastructure for electrical vehicles
  • Monitoring Energy Strategy 2050
  • Geoinformation
    • Geodata
      • Cities and municipalities
        • “2,000-Watt Sites” label
        • “Energy City” label
        • Energy advice services
      • Buildings
        • Renewable heating incentive consulting
        • Minergie standard
      • Mobility
        • E-mobility charging stations
        • COMO projects
        • Shared Mobility services
      • Transmission lines
        • Electricity Transmission Lines sectoral plan
        • Layout plans for electric cable systems
        • Pipeline consultation areas
        • Electrical installations with a nominal voltage exceeding 36 kV
        • Reserved zones for lines with a rated voltage of 220kV or higher
        • Building lines for heavy current installations
        • Pipeline systems
        • Protected areas Pipeline systems
      • Solar energy
        • Solar energy: suitability of façade
        • Suitability of roofs for use of solar energy
          • Questions & Answers
      • Wind energy
        • Wind energy plants
        • Wind speed
        • Icing frequency
        • Areas with wind-power potential
      • Water
        • Compensation of losses in hydropower use
        • Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland
        • Hydropower plants: statistics
        • Water retaining facilities subject to federal supervision
        • Water retaining facilities subject to cantonal supervision
        • Potential heat use of water bodies
        • Potential heat recovery from WWTPs
        • Flood maps for dams under federal supervision
      • Biomass
        • Biogas plants
        • Biomass potential
      • Thermal networks
        • Thermal networks
        • Waste incineration plants
        • Demand from residential and commercial buildings
        • Demand from industry
      • Nuclear energy
        • Nuclear power plants
        • Deep Geological Repositories sectoral plan
      • Production plants
        • Electricity production plants
      • Pilot and demonstration projects
      • Spatial development
    • Storymaps
    • Programming interfaces
      • GeoAdmin API
      • Opendata.swiss Metadata API
      • Sharedmobility.ch API
      • STAC API
      • ilicop API

Promotion

• Renewable energy
  • Feed-in remuneration at cost
  • Non-recurrent remuneration
  • Non-recurrent remuneration for large-scale PV
  • Biomass operating cost contributions
  • Investment contributions for biomass
  • Investment contributions for hydropower
  • Investment contributions for wind energy
  • Market premium for large-scale hydropower
  • Promotion of geothermal energy
  • Financing of additional costs
  • WACC – imputed interest rate
• Energy efficiency
  • Buildings programme
  • Mobility
  • Companies
  • Public sector
  • Competitive calls for tenders – ProKilowatt
  • Reimbursement of grid surcharge
• Research and development
• Open Government Data
• Other promotion programmes

Research and cleantech

• Research and cleantech
• Overview of innovation promotion
• SWEET funding programme
  • SWEET overview
  • Calls for proposals: overview
    • SWEET Call 1-2020
    • SOUR Call 1-2021
    • SWEET Call 1-2021
    • SWEET Call 2-2021
    • SWEET Call 1-2022
    • SWEET Call 2-2022
    • SWEET Call 1-2023
  • Overview consortia
  • News
    • Newsletter SWEET
    • SWEET Conference
  • KTT for SWEET
• Research programmes
  • Batteries
  • Bioenergy
  • Buildings and Cities
  • Combustion Based Energy Systems
  • CCUS / NET
  • Dam Safety
  • Electricity Technologies
  • Energy – Economy – Society (EES)
  • Fuel Cells
  • Geothermal Energy
  • Grids
  • Heat Pump and Refrigeration Technologies
  • Hydrogen
  • Hydropower
  • Industrial Processes
  • Mobility
  • Photovoltaics
  • Solar Energy at High Temperature
  • Solar Heat and Heat Storage
  • Wind Energy
• Pilot and Demonstration programme
  • P+D Call
  • Questions & Answers
• EU Partnerships
  • Driving Urban Transitions (DUT)
  • Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP)
• International cooperation
• Federal Energy Research Commission CORE
• Knowledge and technology transfer
  • Call for proposals
• Sandbox
• Publications
• Calls for tenders
• Newsletter Energy Research and Cleantech

News and Media

• Press releases
• Publications
• Evaluations
• Questions & Answers
• Access to official documents
• Calls for tenders
• Online-Magazin energeiaplus.com
• ENERGEIA
• Videos
• Social Media
• Newsletter Tiefenlager (only in German)
• Info charts

The SFOE

• Swiss Federal Office of Energy
• Executive management
• Organisation
• Contact details
• Address and location
• Legal basis
• Job vacancies
  • Vocational education
  • Internships
• Watt d'Or
  • Winners of the Watt d’Or awards
    • Winners of the 2023 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2022 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2021 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2020 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2019 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2018 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2016 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2015 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2014 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2013 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2012 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2011 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2010 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2009 Watt d'Or awards
    • Winners of the 2008 Watt d’Or awards
    • Winners of the 2007 Watt d’Or awards
  • Objectives
  • Criteria and categories
  • Jury
  • Submission of projects
  • Contact
• Billing and payment options
• Electronic transmission of transactions and documents
• SwissEnergy
  • Objectives
  • Strategy
  • Annual reports
  • Contact details