SWEET DeCarbCH – Decarbonisation of Cooling and Heating in Switzerland
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Andreas Abegg, Dr. Luca Baldini, Prof. Dr. Armin Eberle
- Project team : Juan Camilo Mahecha Zambrano, Dr. Beatrix Schibli, Matthias Speich, Dr. Silvia Ulli-Beer, Reto Walther, Annette Zoller-Eckenstein
- Project budget : CHF 1'200'000
- Project status : ongoing
- Funding partner : Federal government (Bundesamt für Energie BFE / Energieforschungsprogramm SWEET)
- Project partner : Université de Genève, Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt EMPA, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH, Hochschule Luzern, Ostschweizer Fachhochschule OST, Centre de Recherches Energétiques et Municipales CREM, Haute école d'ingénierie et de gestion Vaud HEG-VD, Institut für Nachhaltigkeits- und Demokratiepolitik INDP, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI
- Contact person : Armin Eberle
Description
DeCarbCH is a research project sponsored by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy’s “SWEET” programme (Call 1-2020) and coordinated by the University of Geneva. The DeCarbCH project addresses the colossal challenge of decarbonisation of heating and cooling in Switzerland within three decades and it prepares the grounds for negative CO2 emissions.
The overall objective of the project (with the ultimate target of net zero emissions) is to facilitate, speed up and de-risk the implementation of renewables for heating and cooling in the residential sector (for various scales and degrees of urbanization) as well as for the service and the industry sector.