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Optimizing renewable energy siting in the Swiss landscape
Education, culture and sport
This study examines the siting scenarios for renewable energy infrastructure (REI) in Switzerland, incorporating the external costs of ecosystem services and, innovatively, soci...
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Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains
Education, culture and sport
Overview The SUNWELL Modelling Environment is a combination of data and code that models electricity production from satellite-derived irradiance data and other spatial data se...
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Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Frequency of meteorological icing at 100 metres...
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...
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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...
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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...
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Public energy advice services
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
There is a wide variety of public energy advice services available in Switzerland. They offer impartial advice (neutral relative to products and companies) to the public in gene...