Electricity from the socket, any time, anywhere. That’s how we’ve always known it. Keeping it that way requires a number of factors to come together – electricity supply is a complex overall system.
Every year, the Engineering Power Conference at the Axpo Group headquarters in Baden brings several hundred people from the Axpo universe together and focuses on the diversity of the art of engineering.
Supply security: a combination of production, trade and market
Switzerland’s current energy supply has grown historically. The system has been continuously adapted and improved due to technological and social changes. The interaction between trade and production is of fundamental importance. An analysis by Polynomics has come to the conclusion that trading increases not only efficiency, but ultimately also supply security.
Global warming is the greatest challenge of the 21st century. With its ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement, Switzerland has committed to a 50-per cent reduction of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
The International Energy Agency (IAE) expects global electricity demand to fall by five percent in 2020, and by as much as ten percent in certain regions severely affected by the Covid 19 pandemic.
Electricity is generated in a variety of ways. Whether hydropower or nuclear energy, wind or solar energy, each form of production has its strengths and weaknesses. Do you know them?
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