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248 datasets found

  • Location and adjoining areas of pipeline systems according to the Ordnance on Protection against Major Accidents

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The Ordinance on Protection against Major Accidents (MAO, SR 814.012) is designed to protect the public and the environment from serious damage resulting from major accidents. It...

    Last updated: September 25, 2018

    • WMS
    • WMTS
  • Statistics on hydropower plants (WASTA)

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The "Statistics on hydropower plants" (WASTA) contain data concerning the Swiss hydropower plants with an output of at least 300 kW. This includes technical data relating to...

    Last updated: January 1, 2010

    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • INTERLIS
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • RDF XML
  • Thermal networks (local heating, district heating, district cooling)

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Thermal networks – including district heating-, local heating- or district cooling networks – are systems that provide a number of separate buildings with thermal energy. They...

    Last updated: November 13, 2020

    • WMS
    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • INTERLIS
    • API
  • Potential use of lakes and rivers for heat extraction and heat discharge

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Lakes and rivers provide a great yet largely untapped source of thermal energy. In Switzerland, this renewable source of energy source could be used for heating (heat extraction)...

    Last updated: December 31, 2018

    • GPKG
    • API
    • WMS
  • Biomasse

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Biomassepotenzial verschiedener Abfälle im Kanton Thurgau mit zusätzlichen Biomasseanlagen und Sammelmethode.

    Last updated: February 19, 2015

    • WMS
    • WFS
  • Nuclear Power Plants

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Nuclear power plants are facilities for the commercial generation of electrical power from controlled nuclear fission. The four Swiss nuclear power plants have a total output of...

    Last updated: September 9, 2012

    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • INTERLIS
    • API
  • Dams under federal supervision

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    The dataset contains fundamental information about dams in Switzerland which come under the direct supervision of the Swiss Confederation. This includes data concerning the...

    Last updated: July 2, 2011

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • INTERLIS
    • API
  • Biogas plants

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Biogas plants convert organic matter into gas through a fermentation process. The resulting gas mixture is composed mainly of energy-rich methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2)....

    Last updated: June 29, 2018

    • WMS
    • CSV
    • INTERLIS
    • GPKG
    • API
  • Compensation for losses due to the use of hydraulic power (CLHPO)

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Protected areas under the terms of the Ordinance of 25 October 1995 on Compensation for Losses due to the Use of Hydraulic Power (CLHPO), based on contractual regulations between...

    Last updated: July 1, 2011

    • GPKG
    • WMS
    • INTERLIS
    • API
  • Electricity production plants

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    An electricity production plant is a technical facility for generating electricity. It is in the public interest to have a spatial overview of all electricity production plants in...

    Last updated: January 13, 2021

    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • INTERLIS
    • WMS
    • API
  • Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The geodata product ‘Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland’ is the result of a GIS-based analysis carried out in 2012 as part of the research project 102835 ‘Survey...

    Last updated: January 1, 2010

    • GPKG
    • API
    • WMS
    • WMTS
  • Erdwärme

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Das Kantonsgebiet ist in drei Zonen aufgeteilt, welche sich im Wesentlichen nach der Grundwasserkarte und dem planerischen Gewässerschutz richten. In der Zone 1 sind Erdwärmesonden...

    Last updated: January 1, 2008

    • WMS
    • WFS
  • Waste incineration plants (MWI)

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Waste incineration is the burning of combustible waste components to reduce the volume of the waste while using the energy it contains.In 2017, Switzerland had 30 municipal waste...

    Last updated: September 24, 2019

    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • INTERLIS
    • API
    • WMS
    • WMTS
  • Sustainable potential of non-woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzerland at the municipality level

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Non-woody types of biomass were...

    Last updated: September 6, 2018

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • GPKG
    • API
  • Sustainable potential of woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzerland at the municipality level

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Woody types of biomass were...

    Last updated: September 6, 2018

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • GPKG
    • API
  • Wind energy concept – Swiss federal government basic map of main areas with wind-power potential

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    The wind energy concept is a concept in accordance with Art. 13 of the Swiss Spatial Planning Act (SPA, SR 700). The concept defines both the principal federal government interests...

    Last updated: June 28, 2017

    • WMS
    • GeoTIFF
  • Current pilot and demonstration projects of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    With its Pilot and Demonstration programme the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) promotes the development and testing of new technologies, solutions and concepts relating to...

    Last updated: May 20, 2015

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • INTERLIS
    • API
  • Suitability of façades for the use of solar energy

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The sun's energy that reaches the Earth's surface can be used, via two proven forms of solar technology – photovoltaics (electric current) and solar thermal energy (heat) – to...

    Last updated: October 1, 2016

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • GPKG
    • GDB
    • API
  • Suitability of roofs for the use of solar energy

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Solar energy that reaches the earth’s surface can be utilised with the aid of the two established solar technologies, photovoltaics (electricity) and solar thermal energy, for the...

    Last updated: August 27, 2015

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • GPKG
    • GDB
    • API
  • Wind energy plants

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    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Wind energy plants utilise the kinetic energy of airflow to rotate turbine blades. The mechanical energy that is produced in this way is then converted by a generator into...

    Last updated: June 1, 2014

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • CSV
    • GPKG
    • INTERLIS
    • API