Altitude record with SolarStratos, tour of Lake Titicaca aboard PlanetSolar II: in 2025, Raphaël Domjan once again pushed the boundaries of solar energy. Interview
"For SMEs and micro-enterprises, which make up a large majority of the Swiss economic fabric, the transition is no longer a mere environmental option, but a strategic necessity to ensure our prosperity," says Christophe Barman, national co-president of the FSE.
"If we want to succeed in the energy transition, we must also accept financing it. That requires clear and reliable rules capable of guaranteeing sufficient incentives for investment," explains Michael Frank, director of AES.
"In the past, China launched its Long March. Today, it is engaged in a race against time, with the aim of reaching carbon neutrality by 2060," says Flavia Giovannelli, journalist at the FER Geneva.
For its new exhibition, the Alimentarium in Vevey poses a crucial question for the future: how to feed a planet of 10 billion people healthily and sustainably, without depleting its resources or worsening climate disruption? We discuss it with its director: Boris Wastiau.
"The fragmentation of the global landscape makes collective action on sustainability issues more difficult and widens a political divide in the field of science," explains Jon Duncan, Chief Impact Officer, REYL Intesa Sanpaolo.
Abandoned by Tesla a decade earlier, battery swapping has not yet said its last word. The system is making a comeback in the West through Chinese manufacturers like Nio or the battery king, the giant CATL.
If the 'right to a socket' motion is perceived positively, "we must not cry victory too soon, because it still has to be promulgated, and above all its implementation will have to be pragmatic and coordinated," believes Geoffrey Orlando, head of French-speaking Switzerland for Swiss eMobility.
"The adoption of new tariff principles would be a strategic lever to accelerate the energy transition, promote local production and strengthen the resilience of the national electricity system," says Cécile Theumann, vice-presidente of ADER.
In its latest report, the Energy Commission of the Swiss Academies of Sciences wished to "provide policymakers and industrial decision-makers as well as the general public with well-founded information, to allow a debate that is as rational as possible" on the future of nuclear power in Switzerland.
