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Electricity Transmission Lines sectoral plan
Regions and cities, Environment
Sectoral planning is the federal government’s overlying planning and coordination tool for implementing its spatial planning duties. Projects concerning the construction and exp...
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Sectoral Plan Deep Geological Repositories
Regions and cities, Environment
Most of the radioactive waste in Switzerland comes from the country's five nuclear power plants, though a certain amount is also produced in the healthcare sector, in industry a...
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Thermal networks: demand from residential and commercial buildings
Energy, 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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Thermal networks: heat and cooling sources
Energy, Environment
Heat and cooling sources are local, renewable and CO2-free energy sources which may be of interest for heat production in thermal networks. Nowadays, only renewable or CO2-free ...
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Thermal networks (local heating, district heating, district cooling)
Energy, Environment
Thermal networks – including district heating-, local heating- or district cooling networks – are systems that provide a number of separate buildings with thermal energy. They s...
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Thermal networks: demand from industry
Energy, 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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Location and adjoining areas of pipeline systems according to the Ordnance...
Energy, Environment
The Ordinance on Protection against Major Accidents (MAO, SR 814.012) is designed to protect the public and the environment from serious damage resulting from major accidents. I...
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Biogas plants
Energy, Environment
Biogas plants convert organic matter into gas through a fermentation process. The resulting gas mixture is composed mainly of energy-rich methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2)....
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Reserved zones for lines with a rated voltage of 220kV or higher
Energy, Environment
A reserved zone serves to keep an area free for future lines. In a reserved zone, no projects that could interfere with the construction of a new line may be undertaken for a ma...
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Wind energy plants
Energy, 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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Building lines for heavy current installations
Energy, Environment
A building line secures the space required for the operation, renovation or expansion of a heavy current installation. No construction that interferes with the operation, renova...
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Compensation for losses due to the use of hydraulic power (CLHPO)
Energy, Environment
Protected areas under the terms of the Ordinance of 25 October 1995 on Compensation for Losses due to the Use of Hydraulic Power (CLHPO), based on contractual regulations betwee...
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Dams under federal supervision
Energy, 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...
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Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland
Energy, 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...
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Statistics on hydropower plants (WASTA)
Energy, 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...
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Electricity production plants
Energy, Environment
An electricity production plant is a technical facility for generating electricity. It is in the public interest to have a spatial overview of all electricity production plants ...
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Sustainable potential of woody biomass resources for bioenergy in...
Energy, 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...
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Sustainable potential of non-woody biomass resources for bioenergy in...
Energy, 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...
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Waste incineration plants (MWI)
Energy, 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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Nuclear Power Plants
Energy, 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...