"While it puts manufacturers under pressure, the fall in costs benefits project developers, electricity producers and suppliers, as well as consumers," explains Christian Rom, manager at DNB Asset Management.
Interview with Vincent Kaufmann, director of the Ethos Foundation.
Interview with Mélanie Beyeler, Global Head of Sustainable Investing at EFG.
A recent Harvard study highlights close links between the rise of data centers and clean energy. Behind the algorithms lies a purely material reality: a demand for electricity that is skyrocketing and disrupting grids and the energy transition.
"The summer of 2026 showed what inaction costs; the courts, for their part, have begun to say who must be held responsible for it," emphasize François de Cambiaire and Lydia Méziani, lawyers at de Cambiaire & Méziani Associates.
By combining energy management systems, decentralized generation and storage solutions, facility managers have a strategic opportunity: to transform their buildings according to the "building as a grid" model, says Kamal Mehta, Product & Offer Manager EMEA at Eaton.
"While nuclear power is necessarily part of the long term, photovoltaics and batteries fall into a different timescale: that of the needs we must meet today," says Richard Mesple, CEO of Local Energy.
Interview with Marie-Laure Chapatte, CSR Manager at the Neuchâtel Cantonal Bank (BCN).
"The rise of renewable energy and the reduction of our consumption of oil and gas have allowed Switzerland to avoid 31 billion francs in fossil fuel imports over the past fifteen years," says Pierrette Rey, spokesperson for WWF Switzerland.
Faced with soaring gas prices, several countries — including China and India — have substituted coal for gas to produce their electricity, as highlighted by the latest semiannual report of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
According to Henri Klunge, newly elected deputy in the canton of Vaud and founder of Alcane Conseils, "the presence of this small molecule in the drinking water should remind us that our activities are not without consequences nor without risks for the environment."
Interview with Lukas Krienbuehl, a member of the executive team and head of communications and crowdfunding at Solarify.
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