"Cutting useful subsidies while showing blind confidence in immature technologies are two sides of the same inertia," warns Jean-Yves Pidoux, the former director of the SIL.
Published for the first time by the AES, this tool dedicated to the security of the electricity supply paints a potentially critical picture of the country's situation within a quarter of a century.
"As alarmist rhetoric proliferates, they share the common theme of the threat of a loss of control over a strategic domain for Switzerland," warns Dominique Rochat, Energy & Infrastructure Project Manager at Economiesuisse.
In principle, the agreement has the clear and explicit support of the industry. Its national implementation, however, raises greater reservations within the energy sector.
"The blackout in Spain has highlighted an urgent need: the robustness and proper management of electrical grids are indispensable to Europe's energy security," says Valentin Vigier, Head of Responsible Investment Research, La Financière de l’Échiquier (LFDE).
Interview with Ronny Kaufmann, Director General of Swisspower, a strategic alliance representing 19 municipal utilities and regional supply companies in Switzerland.
"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.
In this year in which we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, European sustainability regulations are being called into question. An update with Ophélie Mortier, Head of Sustainability and Impact at DPAM.
“Switzerland is at the heart of the European electricity system... without really being part of it. This paradox risks costing us more and more,” warns Dominique Rochat, Energy & Infrastructure Project Manager at Economiesuisse.
From next year, the Scandinavian country should no longer sell a single new petrol car. However, its ambitions to become a model of green growth remain tainted by its dependence on oil.
