Energy dialogue – the Magazine

01.11.2024

‘Humans remain the deciding factor’

The Mauvoisin power plants were also severely affected by the storms

01.11.2024

‘How can we better protect our installations?’

The Saas Valley in the canton of Valais was hit by two severe storms this summer

01.11.2024

‘It all happened so fast’

Misox: The effects of the storm can still be felt today – including at the Axpo power plants.

31.10.2024

Does the new Electricity Act provide a suitable framework for the integration of solar energy?

Grid stability as a challenge

27.09.2024

Green Deal Team: Keeping the EU on track for climate neutrality in 2050?

EU energy & climate policy: 2024 - 2029

05.09.2024

A construction site awakes from its slumber

The two-year pause in construction at the Gigerwald dam facility was caused by the threat of a power shortage in winter 2022/23.

02.09.2024

Seven reasons to build wind power plants in Switzerland

Wind power generates winter electricity

29.07.2024

Electricity market regulation 2024 – interim summary

There’s still plenty to do

26.04.2024

The electricity law – putting a key argument of its opponents to the test

Nature and landscape conservation are not being compromised

10.04.2024

A refuge for birds, fish and beavers

The Hydropower Tour de Suisse – Aarekraftwerk Klingnau AG

27.02.2024

Stabilising the Electricity Grid with Water from the Valle Mesolcina

Important task in the remote mountain world

27.02.2024

Full market liberalisation: opportunity, not a must

Supplier choice for small-scale consumers too?

29.01.2024

H2 demand: a look into the crystal ball

Potential, costs and visions for the future of hydrogen

04.12.2023

Axpo accelerates Swiss solar initiative

In alpine, midland and urban areas

26.10.2023

Modern Axpo power plant produces energy for 14,000 households

Rüchlig power plant – a modern understatement in the centre of Aarau

19.09.2023

What’s behind the electricity price increases

Basic electricity supply prices are rising

12.09.2023

Alp da Schnaus used in many and varied ways

Combining leisure, nature and energy generation in Ilanz/Glion

01.09.2023

Premiere in the Canton of Schwyz

Axpo and EWS give new impetus with first alpine solar plant in Canton Schwyz

18.08.2023

Reserve power plants as part of the Swiss electricity system

Drawing energy only in an emergency

16.08.2023

Hydrogen from the Rhine – a key pillar of Switzerland’s energy future

Axpo will produce up to 350 tonnes of hydrogen per year from Rhine water

07.08.2023

Green hydrogen simply explained

Axpo goes for H2 as an energy carrier

18.07.2023

EU Nature Restoration Law narrowly survives crucial vote

European Parliament split over environmental policy

18.07.2023

Full acceleration of approval procedures

Currently we are taking too long

26.06.2023

"We still have the spirit and passion of the early days"

Interview with Katja Stommel on Volkswind's 30th anniversary

25.05.2023

The six main basics of hydropower

Clean, efficient and important for security of supply

17.05.2023

Renewables on the rise throughout the world

Renewables like PV and wind are booming – but we need even more growth

08.05.2023

Caischavedra – A giant yesterday, a dwarf today

Thirty years ago, Axpo built the largest solar plant of the time in the Swiss Alps

05.05.2023

Large-scale alpine solar plant "Ovra Solara Magriel" in the starting blocks

Solar offensive forges ahead: 10-megawatt plant above Disentis

18.04.2023

Wind power – yes please!

Swiss wind energy: getting the locals on board

13.04.2023

For more winter power

The largest alpine solar plant in the production profile

09.03.2023

The wind has shifted

Swiss wind energy: insignificant today – a pillar for reliable supply tomorrow

01.03.2023

Expansion of renewables and nature protection? No contradiction

Politics and industry want faster expansion of PV, wind and hydropower

07.12.2022

Axpos photovoltaic ambition for Switzerland increases sixfold

Improved framework paves the way for solar offensive

02.12.2022

Energy from pumpkins

Jona fermentation plant runs on pumpkin power

22.11.2022

Solar power for over 300,000 Swiss households

Axpo launches solar offensive. Winter power from the Alps and the motorway

15.11.2022

Solar power from a satellite dish

Winter power from an innovative solar project in the Alps

27.10.2022

Solar power above - strawberries below

Why we urgently need more agrophotovoltaics in Switzerland

02.09.2022

Solar power from the mountains – how does that work?

Test your energy knowledge

01.09.2022

3.3 gigawatt hours of winter electricity

Switzerland's largest alpine solar plant fully operational

24.08.2022

Garden waste in summer slumber

When silo bales store energy for the winter

23.08.2022

Citizens participate in the energy transition

A good way to increase the acceptance of wind and solar power

19.08.2022

When wind becomes electricity

Test your energy knowledge

10.08.2022

Last solar board installed

A milestone at AlpinSolar Muttsee

10.08.2022

Solar yield at 2500 metres

The challenges of building the largest alpine solar plant

27.07.2022

A bumpy road towards EU climate neutrality?

European Green Deal: Fit-for-55 package

13.07.2022

Countering misconceptions

Seven reasons for the construction of ground-mounted systems

23.05.2022

“Create conditions for investments in renewables”

Axpo and Goldenergy host energy challenge debate in Portugal

19.05.2022

How is hydrogen produced

Grey, green, yellow – H2 theory of colours

18.05.2022

“Employees are the most important key to growth”

Axpo powers ahead in France

17.05.2022

Unassuming but essential

In the canton of Glarus, hydropower reveals its potential

10.05.2022

Four reasons why hydropower is having a hard time in Switzerland

Hydropower is crucial to the energy transition

09.05.2022

What exactly is hydrogen?

Everywhere, but never alone

02.05.2022

From satellite dish to solar plant

Winter power in the Valais Alps thanks to an innovative project

06.04.2022

"We have the know-how"

Growth strategy for solar and wind until 2030

01.04.2022

Off into new heights

Large-scale solar plants make a significant contribution to the prevention of a winter power gap

23.03.2022

5 MWp from floating solar panels

A new function for a former gravel pit

08.02.2022

Before the rotor blades start turning

A gigantic construction: Building a wind power plant

08.02.2022

From inside as from above

Extraordinary pictures of a wind turbine

18.01.2022

Those who make sure electricity flows

A guest commentary by Christoph Brand in the NZZ

22.12.2021

Energy knowledge in high demand

Energy dialogue: The ten most read articles

26.10.2021

A technology for the future?

Organic solar cells

19.10.2021

Bright as the sun

Solar energy: How well informed are you - a quiz

11.10.2021

One small step toward the energy transition

AlpinSolar produces electricity for the first time

06.10.2021

Demand could boom as of 2030

PwC study on hydrogen

01.10.2021

Construction at an altitude of over 2500 meters

Steady progress on Switzerland’s largest alpine solar power plant at the Muttsee dam wall

01.10.2021

Construction at an altitude of over 2500 meters

Steady progress on Switzerland’s largest alpine solar power plant at the Muttsee dam wall

22.09.2021

Battery costs to be halved by 2050

Large comparative study by the University of Münster

07.09.2021

Equipe à grande vitesse

Axpo has significantly increased its team in France

26.08.2021

Urban safari

Bioparc Valencia relies on 100% green electricity

18.08.2021

Splitting water

Hydrogen – a flexible energy carrier for the energy turnaround

12.08.2021

How does a Spanish tortilla become climate friendly?

Axpo Iberia supplies green electricity to potato producer Patatas Meléndez

10.08.2021

"Energy Payback Time" and more

Reliable facts on solar energy

05.08.2021

Stirring things up with a really big spoon

Hydrogen projects – Australia, Oman, Spain and Germany moving forward

02.08.2021

Technical potential of 9 to 11 GW

New study for photovoltaics on infrastructure in Switzerland

30.07.2021

Swiss Grand Canyon

En route in "Axpoland": Through the wild Rhine Gorge

22.07.2021

Environmental refurbishment – mammoth task for hydropower

Balancing electricity production and environmental protection

08.07.2021

Learning to garden

A sprouting garden using soil products from Axpo Biomasse AG

01.07.2021

How high is your solar IQ?

Test you solar energy knowledge

29.06.2021

High electricity production during the winter

Study: Climate change is altering Switzerland's water balance

04.06.2021

Abundant electricity from the sun

Study shows: Wind and solar power could cover global energy demand by one hundred times.

31.05.2021

Shine with the sun

Solar quiz: Test your knowledge

28.05.2021

Renewable energy from horse manure

Axpo at the Longines CSIO St. Gallen jumping tournament

17.05.2021

An energy multi-talent

Hydrogen in practice

12.05.2021

Solar power for sweets

CKW: Solar contracting for chocolate manufacturer Aeschbach Chocolatier AG

29.04.2021

Construction under consideration of the nature park

Underground power line in the Schaffhausen nature park

22.04.2021

Sharing key technologies

Hydrogen future: Axpo Italia and RINA to promote innovative projects

15.04.2021

EU Hydrogen Strategy

The EU focuses on a hydrogen economy and the integration of the energy system

15.04.2021

Hydrogen basics

Storing renewable energies

08.04.2021

Highway 4.0

Solar energy in the transport sector – research and pilot projects

25.03.2021

Axpo voted Portugal’s best 100% renewable energy supplier

Portuguese subsidiary Goldenergy chosen by consumers for top award

04.03.2021

On the road to renewable power purchase agreements

Clean energy for Italian companies: Axpo Italia's ‘Green Route’ to corporate PPAs

23.02.2021

Power demand on the rise – strong growth in renewables and H2

McKinsey & Co.: Global Energy Perspective 2021

08.02.2021

Axpo no. 1 at solar auction in France

The Axpo subsidiary Urbasolar has gained a market share of 38 per cent in tenders for solar canopies.

02.02.2021

Combined forces on the road

Successful integration and cooperation in the extended Berom team

28.01.2021

Solving the problem at the source

Solar plants cause voltage fluctuations

21.01.2021

"We need a new solution for winter power"

Solar researcher Annelen Kahl on the solar project in the Glarus Alps

21.01.2021

Pioneer project above the fog line

Solar power from the Muttenalp

21.01.2021

Off to the mountains!

Enjoy the mountains and the cool alpine air at the Muttsee

06.01.2021

Solar energy will boom worldwide

World Energy Outlook of the International Energy Agency

30.11.2020

Strong tailwind for Axpo

Volkswind success at auctions in France

26.11.2020

"We will be among the top three PPA providers"

Axpo Deutschland plans to use the experience gained in other countries in 2021

25.11.2020

From construction site to grassy meadow

Recultivation following completion of the large-scale Linth-Limmern construction project

23.11.2020

A full load of sun for pizza and panettone

Axpo Italia builds a solar plant for the Italian bakery products supplier Italmill

12.11.2020

Green electricity for more environmentally friendly chocolate packaging

Axpo Italia concludes PPA with traditional aluminum foil manufacturer

03.11.2020

Axpo Biomass in Eglisau

First success in implementing the expansion strategy

30.10.2020

Spectral play of colours on solar plant in Toulouse

The largest urban solar plant ever built

29.10.2020

Axpo at Disneyland Paris

Axpo and Disneyland Paris are building one of Europe's largest solar canopies

26.10.2020

Why cowpats can be good for the climate

Axpo Iberia signs Spain’s first long-term biomethane deal with pioneering milk farm

20.10.2020

Naturbett® horse bedding – made by Axpo

New innovative product

15.10.2020

Switzerland’s first digital hydropower plant

A key for innovative energy production

13.10.2020

Axpo turns its employees into solar entrepreneurs

Solar plant at Axpo headquarters oversubscribed by a factor more than 5

04.09.2020

Self-consumption made easy

Básica, Óptima, and Premium: three solar solutions for all types of SMEs

02.09.2020

Winter power from house facades

Solar facades also have potential in Switzerland

26.08.2020

Is Tesla a potential PPA opponent?

The electric car boom in Germany is stirring up the power industry

20.08.2020

Solar power on top – potatoes down below

Dual use of agricultural land with agrivoltaics

29.07.2020

Solar power for Galliker Transport AG

Powerful solar farm for the Car House in Altishofen

24.07.2020

We need better incentives for sustainable electricity

Switzerland has the wrong instruments for promoting renewable energies. A guest article by Thomas Sieber (Chairman of the Board of Directors Axpo) and Gianni Operto (President AEE) published in the Tages Anzeiger of 20 July 2020.

08.07.2020

Visit the Smart Energy Lab

We have the ideal program for you when the sun is not shining and the raindrops are falling: A visit to the Smart Energy Lab.

24.06.2020

Solar roof in Baden

Fabio Giddey, solar technician at CKW, about the solar system at the Baden campus

03.06.2020

"Not all electricity is the same"

New Smart Energy Lab at Umwelt Arena Spreitenbach

02.06.2020

"The floating market premium is the more effective solution"

Christoph Sutter, Head of New Energies at Axpo, talks about his experience with the "floating market premium" in the international environment.

20.05.2020

Hydropower: A storable energy

So much energy is available in Swiss reservoirs

14.05.2020

How do you produce electricity from the sun?

Test your energy knowledge (3)

06.05.2020

Green electricity for fuel supply chains

Axpo Iberia signs long-term PPA with leading petroleum supplier CLH Group

21.04.2020

"We demand a floating market premium"

Axpo President of the Board Thomas Sieber in an interview with CH Media

09.04.2020

Electricity from hydropower

Test your energy knowledge (2)

30.03.2020

Producing carbon-neutral fuel from renewable energy

Axpo Nordic supplies wind power for environmentally friendly power-to-fuel-project in Sweden

27.03.2020

Solar power from the greenhouse

What raspberries, weather and power production have in common

19.03.2020

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).

13.03.2020

Urbasolar is building a 5-MWp solar plant near Toulouse

13,888 floating solar panels

25.02.2020

Smooth operator

Switzerland's storage power plants supply important power during the winter.

18.02.2020

Solar energy from Swiss rooftops

Study by the ETH Lausanne: Solar potential amounts to about 24 TWh

11.02.2020

Cutting through the wall

How the Isola dam at San Bernardino is being restructured

13.01.2020

"It's time for a green economy"

Claudia Casciaro about the strategic direction of Axpo Biomasse AG

06.12.2019

Switzerland should rely on solar energy

National Fund researchers: An important role for hydropower

03.12.2019

Tailor-made trading strategies, increasing returns

Axpo is using data science to support the marketing of wind power across Europe

25.11.2019

Solar power from the mountains

Studies indicate: Photovoltaics can produce lots of electricity at high altitudes during the winter

31.10.2019

"It won't happen without investments"

SP National Councilman Roger Nordmann a guest at Axpo

28.10.2019

High taxes penalise Swiss Producers

The international competitiveness of Swiss hydropower

25.10.2019

Profiting from low interest rates

ETH study on the competitiveness of renewable energies

10.10.2019

Wind power for affordable cars

Axpo Energy Romania cooperates with Dacia and VERBUND

18.09.2019

Urbasolar and the City

The Axpo subsidiary starts building Toulouse's largest solar energy park in an urban environment

10.09.2019

Hydro 4.0

First digital hydropower plant in Switzerland

29.08.2019

Overhead canopies: Solar power from the parking lot

How the Axpo subsidiary Urbasolar generates power from parking areas

29.07.2019

"PV will become mass marketable"

The founders of the Axpo subsidiary Urbasolar in a video interview

26.07.2019

Energy and nature united

The Klingnau Reservoir and its many facets

03.07.2019

In love with clean electricity

EROS Electric guarantees renewable, local, CO2-neutral power for electric vehicles

28.06.2019

Renewable, but not infinite

How much potential is there in Swiss hydropower?

13.06.2019

The sun is rising in Évora

PPA from Axpo enables commissioning of huge solar park in Portugal

15.05.2019

Bananas!

There's lots of energy in banana skins

09.05.2019

Energy from organic waste?

How this works and what else Axpo is involved in

07.05.2019

A PPA in three weeks and six days

Axpo Nordic concludes complex deal in record time

02.05.2019

The solar power business

Urbasolar develops photovoltaic systems since 2006

02.05.2019

"An agile and very successful SME"

Mister Renewables Christoph Sutter zum Kauf von Urbasolar

25.04.2019

"Mediator between producers and consumers"

Why Axpo sees great potential in the international PPA business

17.04.2019

A climate-friendly energy system

Switzerland ranks second in the WEF's "Energy Transition Index"

05.04.2019

Green electricity for e-bike charging stations

Axpo Iberia now supplies Madrid's urban transport services

25.03.2019

"Photovoltaics has a future"

Christoph Sutter on the opportunities for solar energy development

27.02.2019

Eco-power for soil

Axpo liquid fertiliser

19.02.2019

How the solar cell found the spotlight

Alexandre Edmond Becquerel and the story of photovoltaics

13.02.2019

Where the wind blows

Wind atlas for Switzerland with updated data

01.02.2019

Cuddling by the fire

Comfortable warmth with firewood from Axpo Tegra

28.01.2019

Strong in PPA

We have the know-how

28.01.2019

PPAs on the agenda

What awaits Axpo at this year's E-world

28.01.2019

Number 1 in green electricity

Axpo markets approx. 14,000 MW in Europe

25.01.2019

The dark side of the energy turnaround

A great deal has gone wrong in Germany's transformation of the power system

24.01.2019

Nature knows no mercy

The Mauvoisin power plants are at nature's mercy in winter and in summer.

17.01.2019

Power from the mountains

The high mountains offer less than ideal conditions for wind power

11.10.2018

Hydropower: Expansion target endangered

Energy Strategy 2050 and environmental concerns in conflict

08.10.2018

What is the most efficient lighting?

Facts and figures on the topic of energy

04.10.2018

For a good climate footprint

Christian Giezendanner knows why composting makes sense

28.09.2018

Axpo and its castles

Building surge tanks for energy production

05.09.2018

Proper disposal pays off

The advantages of waste separation - for you and the environment

16.08.2018

Connected as a partner

Axpo and its hydropower plants - Who recognises our assets?

26.07.2018

Happy cows, happy farmer

The advantages of Axpo compost bedding

06.06.2018

Plastic bags in organic waste

A challenge for the Kompogas plants

25.05.2018

Water's power

Off to nature in the High Rhine region – to eleven hydropower plants

22.05.2018

Swiss larch...

...makes for a tidy garden

22.05.2018

Solar System: How it works

How electric energy is produced from sunlight

22.05.2018

"Every wind power plant feeds a giant database"

The challenges in the wind industry

18.05.2018

Priority for electric vehicles

Axpo expands its e-mobility network in Italy

16.05.2018

Blowin' in the Wind

Hard times for wind power in Switzerland

15.05.2018

A Big Mac becomes energy

Axpo and McDonald's have been cooperating since 2009

14.05.2018

"The wind business is doing well"

Christoph Sutter, Head of New Energies, on the development of the Axpo wind portfolio

08.05.2018

Working in the wind

Operations at the "Axpo" Global Tech I wind farm

07.05.2018

More than just a breeze

Wind energy is an important market of the future for Axpo.

17.04.2018

Inside a dam

A look into the Zervreila hydropower plant

09.04.2018

Close to the wind

Global Tech I deliveries energy for nearly 445,000 households

04.04.2018

More wind with Axpo

Making wind projects possible with know-how and market proximity

02.04.2018

Hydropower does not come free

Property reversion and new concessions for hydropower plants

28.03.2018

Environmentalists' dilemma

Green energy and nature in harmony – can that work?

22.03.2018

Hydropower - local and clean

Amazing figures on hydroelectric power plants

14.03.2018

Missing money

The profitability of Swiss hydropower: A study

29.11.2017

Hydropower: Do the melting glaciers help?

ETH researchers identify locations for future hydropower

04.08.2017

Geothermal heat islands

Unutilised energy potential lies below the ground in urban areas

04.07.2017

Producing power with kites

Researchers are working on innovative wind power plants

30.05.2017

In harmony with nature

CKW produces electricity with wind power for 600 households in the Entlebuch

15.05.2017

Strong winds at Axpo

From development to marketing

15.04.2017

Every little bit helps

Small rivers and residual water to produce power

11.04.2017

Free ride for fish

Eglisau-Glattfelden hydro power plant: Elevator and ladder for fish

31.03.2017

Habitat

Beznau, Eglisau, Klingnau: In harmony with nature

23.03.2017

More melt water until 2050

How climate change impacts hydropower

17.03.2017

Renewable – reliable – domestic!

Axpo is the largest producer of hydropower in Switzerland

12.12.2016

Is Axpo a renewable company?

Are you familiar with our assets? Test yourself.

01.11.2016

A photovoltaic system at the Muttsee – An option for the future