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.
Interview with Ronny Kaufmann, Director General of Swisspower, a strategic alliance representing 19 municipal utilities and regional supply companies in Switzerland.
Analysis of surface areas, planning and supervision of works, monitoring, maintenance, billing of energy to tenants... the company Local Energy takes care of everything. "We like to define ourselves as a sort of energy utility," explains its director, Richard Mesple.
In a survey conducted among a thousand citizens, it emerges that a narrow majority (56%) of respondents say they are in favor of Switzerland reconsidering the construction of nuclear power plants.
"The Birch glacier gave way at Blatten. And with it, part of our economic certainties," say Brewen Latimier, manager, and Virginie Captier, director of Colombus Consulting.
"Asserting the necessity of abolishing the CS3D amounts to ignoring an increasingly pressing reality: the future of European competitiveness is tied to the adoption of sustainable capitalism," explain François de Cambiaire and Lydia Méziani, lawyers at de Cambiaire & Méziani Associés.
"If the label qualifying our profession could still change, the primary objective itself remains unchanged: to guarantee the durability of investments over time," explains Soliane Varlet, fund manager at Mirova (affiliated with Natixis IM).
"Following the blackout in Spain, several press articles confused this event with the measures put in place to deal with an energy shortage," laments Xavier Company, director of the SIL and municipal councillor.
In a context of attacks on science — mainly in the United States — Anna Fontcuberta i Morral stresses that "one of her main missions is to strengthen dialogue with the public." Interview with the woman who took the reins of EPFL at the beginning of the year.
"The finding is sobering: the more the indicators signaling the environment's growing inability to sustain our activities turn red, the less we want to know about it," laments René Longet, sustainable development expert and author of 'Planète Etat d’urgence: les réponses de la durabilité'.
