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Renewable – reliable – domestic!
Axpo is the largest producer of hydropower in Switzerland
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Hydropower: Expansion target endangered
Energy Strategy 2050 and environmental concerns in conflict
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Hydropower: Do the melting glaciers help?
ETH researchers identify locations for future hydropower
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A new role for Axpo in hydropower
Many hydropower plant licences will expire in the coming years
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Hydropower does not come free
Property reversion and new concessions for hydropower plants
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High taxes penalise Swiss Producers
The international competitiveness of Swiss hydropower
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Four reasons why hydropower is having a hard time in Switzerland
Hydropower is crucial to the energy transition
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Environmental refurbishment – mammoth task for hydropower
Balancing electricity production and environmental protection
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How is electricity generated?
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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Renewable, but not infinite
How much potential is there in Swiss hydropower?
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The six main basics of hydropower
Clean, efficient and important for security of supply
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Missing money
The profitability of Swiss hydropower: A study
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With the brakes on
Hydropower: Approx. 500 million francs needed for replacement investments
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Electricity from hydropower
Test your energy knowledge (2)
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Axpo to supply Swiss Steel Group with Swiss hydropower electricity
Axpo, the largest hydropower plant operator in Switzerland and leading pan-European marketer of electricity from renewable energies, has concluded a three-year power supply contract with Steeltec, the Swiss Steel Group’s plant in Switzerland, it was announced today. Steeltec will now rely on electricity from Swiss hydropower to produce its specialist steels. The deal further highlights the role of Axpo’s innovative energy solutions in the decarbonisation of Swiss industry.
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Axpo puts hydropower plant into operation deep in the Grisons mountains
The 2.5-megawatt Curnera hydropower plant of Kraftwerke Vorderrhein AG (KVR) is located 250 metres inside the mountains and utilises the height difference of an existing water transfer system. The power plant produces clean electricity for the equivalent of 2,200 average four-person households.
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Hydropower - local and clean
Amazing figures on hydroelectric power plants
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Run-of-river hydropower – in simple terms
Hydropower supplies around 60 percent of the energy produced in Switzerland. This is good, because electricity from hydropower is renewable, indigenous, reliable and climate-friendly (CO2-free).
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Switzerland’s first digital hydropower plant
A key for innovative energy production
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Axpo signs PPA with Nestlé Switzerland for Mauvoisin hydropower plant
Axpo, Switzerland’s largest producer of renewable energies and Europe's leading provider of power purchase agreements (PPAs), and Nestlé Switzerland are team-ing up in their Swiss home market. For a period of 5 years, Axpo will supply Nestlé in Switzerland with green electricity from its Mauvoisin hydropower plant in the canton of Valais. Thereby, Axpo demonstrates its ability to play a key role in im-plementing complex physical PPA structures for industrial companies in the Swiss market.
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