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Renewable energy production up

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:44:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s production of energy from renewable sources rose in 2010, new figures from the Federal Energy Office 30 June show. Electricity from renewable sources, including hydroelectric power (without accumulation pumps consumption), rose by 1.2 percent for a total of 36.4 billion kWh. Nuclear power plants currently provide 39.3 percent of the country’s [...]

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Swiss retreat from nuclear energy (update 2)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:25:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 2 19:20 BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss ruling seven-member Federal Council Wednesday afternoon voted to end the country’s nuclear energy programme by 2034. The decision requires approval by Parliament. Five existing nuclear power stations will be closed as their licenses, which will not be renewed, come to an end. Europe finalizes nuclear station “stress [...]

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Swiss gov’t lays out 2011 agenda

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:21:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Federal Council will consult on plan for how big banks can fail, negotiate withholding tax on foreigners’ accounts Measles, tougher penal sentences, electricity suppliers, corporate tax rates all on the 2011 schedule Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Government, fresh from the defeat of its counter-initiative in the vote on foreign convicts 28 November, has [...]

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3 new Swiss nuclear power stations pass first hurdle

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:04:07 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Public referendum in 2013 likely Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Three requests to build new nuclear power stations, on the site of existing ones, have passed their first hurdle, with the Federal Nuclear Safety Commission saying the sites meet legal and other requirements. The commission will now study the applications, the first in a series of approval [...]

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Kandou celebrated as EPFL’s no. 1000 invention

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:10:59 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Mathematical invention part of the future shrinking of our electronic devices Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – EPFL is boasting its 1,000th invention 3 November, with the official arrival of Kandou, a new system based on mathematics whose daunting task is to try to reduce the world’s computer electricity consumption, currently 150 billion kWh per year, which [...]

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Swiss electricity costs inching up but vary between towns, regions

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com 2011 Swiss electricity rates (white = did not report rates) Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - ‘Tis the season for electricity companies to tell us what we should budget for electricity for the next year, and the answer throughout Switzerland is: the price is rising. ElCom, the Swiss Federal Electricity Commission, announced 7 September that on average [...]

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Swiss electricity hikes: gov’t says no reason

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:13:00 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Electricity price increases announced in 2009 by several suppliers were provisionally rejected in July 2009 by Bern as unnecessarily high, and Monday 8 March the federal electricity commission confirmed this. The commission’s report says that the increases were based on costs that were over-estimated in some cases and unacceptable inefficiency in [...]

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Vaud to have 10 more windmills

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:07:46 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Canton Vaud will have 10 additional wind turbines on a third site, by 2014, Romande Energie announced Friday 5 March. The communes of Longirod and Marchissy, at the foot of the Jura, have agreed to their construction, as have the landowners. The wind energy produced by the mills will supply electricity [...]

Power outages disrupt Lausanne area

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:05:43 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A major power outage caused by a malfunction at an electric station in Romanel affected much of the Lausanne area Monday evening: the M1, M2 and TL city public transport lines were down and 70 percent of the city is reported to have been without electricity, but details are sketchy at [...]

WWF files complaint over Swiss companies’ coal use

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:53:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - WWF Switzerland has filed a complaint with the European Union over the continuing support by some Swiss electricity companies of coal-based electricity production in northern Germany. Romande Energie is among several Swiss electricity suppliers who participate in the coal-based activities at Brunsbuettel in northern Germany. The company announced in August 2008 [...]

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