SWEET EDGE: Integrating very high shares of decentralized renewable energy into the Swiss energy system
Electricity market design and policy
At a glance
- Co-project leader : Prof. Dr. Regina Betz, Dr. Florian Landis
- Project team : Dr. Ali Darudi, Raphaela Kotsch, Dr. Ingmar Schlecht, Prof. Philippe Thalmann, Prof. Dr. Hannes Weigt, Prof. Dr. Christian Winzer
- Project budget : CHF 590'000
- Project status : ongoing
- Funding partner : Federal government (Bundesamt für Energie BFE / Förderprogramm SWEET)
- Project partner : Université de Genève / Renewable Energy Systems, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL / Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL / Institute for Snow and Avelanche Research SLF, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL / Laboratory for Environmental and Urban Economics, Universität Basel / Chair for Energy Economics, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL / Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH / Power System Laboratory, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH / Risk and Reliability Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH / Energy Politics, Universität Bern / Chair of Comparative Politics, Universität St. Gallen / Chair for Management of Renewable Energies, Hochschule Luzern / Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Technology, Berner Fachhochschule BFH / Laboratory for Photovoltaic Systems, Paul Scherrer Institut PSI / Bioenergy and Catalysis Laboratory, Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL / Sustainable Forestry, SUNWELL Sàrl, Basler & Hofmann AG, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH / Klimafinanzierung und -politik
- Contact person : Florian Landis
Description
EDGE wants to fast-track the growth of locally sourced decentralized renewable energy in Switzerland. The project aims to ensure that by 2035 and 2050, when ambitious shares of renewable energy are reached, the Swiss energy system is designed and operated in a technically and economically optimal and secure way, and that it is well positioned in the European markets.
The Center for Energy and the Environment (CEE) at ZHAW is involved in work packages 7 and 8 of EDGE. In work package 7, “Deployment and integration of decentralized systems”, we contribute to the economic analysis of various technology scenarios of the electricity sector and study how the Swiss electricity sector interacts with the European one. In work package 8, “Policy, markets, and finance to scale up renewable systems”, we use a numerical model for analysing how electricity market design and other policies influence the decisions of households to invest in decentralized renewable generation capacity. We then assess what the distributional effects of the policy measures are and if the outcomes can be considered equitable.
Further information
Publications
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2023.
Alpine Solaranlagen : Fluch oder Segen (oder beides)?.
In:
"Energy Drinks" des SWEET-EDGE-Projektes, Bern, Schweiz, 21. August 2023.