Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE

The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) is the country's competence centre for issues relating to energy supply and energy use at the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC).

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Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
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 ‘Survey...

Last updated: June 1, 2012
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- SERVICE
- API
- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- energy
- renewable-energy-source
- water-power
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Suitability of façades for the use of solar energy

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

The sun's energy that reaches the Earth's surface can be used, via two proven forms of solar technology – photovoltaics (electric current) and solar thermal energy (heat) – to...

Last updated: January 11, 2023
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- WMTS
- SERVICE
- GPKG
- GDB
- API
- renewable-energy-source
- solar-energy
- energy-source
- energy-resources
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Frequency of meteorological icing at 100 metres above the ground

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
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 the...

Last updated: May 31, 2016
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- WMTS
- GeoTIFF
- SERVICE
- API
- meteorology
- energy
- wind-power
- wind-power-station
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Groundwater heat utilisation potential

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

The thermal energy stored in groundwater can be used for heating purposes. With groundwater heat pump systems, the heat can be extracted from the groundwater and transferred to the...

Last updated: December 31, 2023
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- WMS
- SERVICE
- gis-geographic-information-system
- outline-map
- data-infrastructure
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- groundwater-resources
- urban-environment-urban-stress
- climate
- social-aspects-population
- resources
- general
- geography
- trade-services
- research
- geography
- energy
- groundwater
- heat-physics
Potential heat recovery from wastewater treatment plants

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) treat and purify wastewater. Wastewater is water that has been polluted through activities such as cooking, doing laundry or showering and then...

Last updated: October 3, 2018
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- WMS
- WMTS
- INTERLIS
- SERVICE
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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Thermal networks: demand from residential and commercial buildings

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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...

Last updated: December 31, 2013
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- WMTS
- INTERLIS
- SERVICE
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Solar irradiation on a surface inclined 30° to the south

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

The irradiation maps show the solar radiation on a south-facing surface for four different inclinations: Horizontal, 30°, 75° and 90°. The data is based on Switzerland-wide...

Last updated: February 15, 2024
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- climate
- urban-environment-urban-stress
- energy
- social-aspects-population
- resources
- general
- geography
- trade-services
- research
- transport
- solar-cell
- solar-energy
- duration-of-sunshine
- solar-radiation
- geography
- energy
- nature
- gis-geographic-information-system
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Compensation for losses due to the use of hydraulic power (CLHPO)

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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 between...

Last updated: September 8, 2011
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- WMS
- INTERLIS
- SERVICE
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- energy-resources
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Thermal networks: demand from industry

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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...

Last updated: December 31, 2013
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- WMS
- WMTS
- INTERLIS
- SERVICE
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Current pilot and demonstration projects of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

With its Pilot and Demonstration programme the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) promotes the development and testing of new technologies, solutions and concepts relating to...

Last updated: October 1, 2025
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- WMTS
- SERVICE
- CSV
- GPKG
- INTERLIS
- API
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- energy-resources
- energy-supply
Heating with renewables: Detached homes and apartment blocks with up to 6 apartments

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

A ‘renewable heating’ advice service is available to building owners who have oil, gas or electric heating and who wish to find out which renewable low-carbon heat source is most...

Last updated: March 27, 2025
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- WMTS
- CSV
- GPKG
- INTERLIS
- SERVICE
- API
- energy-source-material
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Biogas plants

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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)....

Last updated: December 31, 2020
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- INTERLIS
- GPKG
- API
- atos-atom-opensearch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- energy-resources
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Wind energy plants

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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...

Last updated: February 26, 2024
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- HTML
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- energy-resources
- wind-power
- wind-power-station
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Solar irradiation on a horizontal surface

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

The irradiation maps show the solar radiation on a south-facing surface for four different inclinations: Horizontal, 30°, 75° and 90°. The data is based on Switzerland-wide...

Last updated: December 31, 2023
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- SERVICE
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- water-related-process
- space-provided-for-waters
- nature
- gis-geographic-information-system
- standing-water
- watercourse
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- outline-map
- traffic-network
- water
- climate
- urban-environment-urban-stress
- energy
- social-aspects-population
- natural-dynamics
- resources
- general
- geography
- trade-services
- transport
- research
- energy
- geography
- transport
- surface-water-management
- water-geographic
- electric-vehicle
Nuclear Power Plants

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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...

Last updated: December 20, 2019
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- INTERLIS
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- inspire
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- utility-and-governmental-services
- energy-resources
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Sustainable potential of non-woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzerland at the municipality level

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, 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...

Last updated: September 6, 2018
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- SERVICE
- GPKG
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- energy-resource
- energy-resources
- energy
- biomass-energy
- biomass
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Solar irradiation on a surface inclined 90° to the south

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

The irradiation maps show the solar radiation on a south-facing surface for four different inclinations: Horizontal, 30°, 75° and 90°. The data is based on Switzerland-wide...

Last updated: February 15, 2024
- GPKG
- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- SERVICE
- HTML
- climate
- urban-environment-urban-stress
- energy
- social-aspects-population
- resources
- general
- geography
- trade-services
- research
- solar-energy
- geography
- solar-cell
- energy
- transport
- solar-radiation
- duration-of-sunshine
- nature
- gis-geographic-information-system
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Heating with renewables: Apartment blocks with more than 6 apartments

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

A ‘renewable heating' advice service is available to building owners who have oil, gas or electric heating and who wish to find out which renewable low-carbon heat source is most...

Last updated: December 13, 2022
- WMS
- CSV
- GPKG
- INTERLIS
- SERVICE
- API
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- energy-source-material
Mobility projects

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport

The database of mobility projects contains various projects: On the one hand, projects that were supported by KOMO (Coordination Office for Sustainable Mobility) or its predecessor...

Last updated: June 4, 2025
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- WMTS
- CSV
- GPKG
- INTERLIS
- SERVICE
- API
- mobility
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
2000-Watt Sites

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

The 2000-Watt Sites label is used for certifying residential areas that are able to demonstrate a sustainable use of resources for the construction, operation and renovation of...

Last updated: March 5, 2025
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- INTERLIS
- WMS
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- SERVICE
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

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