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Wind energy plants
Wind energy plants utilise the kinetic energy of airflow to rotate turbine blades. The mechanical energy that is produced in this way is then converted by a generator into electricity.The first wind energy facility in Switzerland was put into operation in 1986 near Soolhof Farm (Langenbruck, canton of Baselland) and had an output of 28 kilowatts. In 2013, a total of 34 wind power plants produced around 85 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity. The largest wind park is on Mont Crosin in the Bernese Jura near St Imier: this facility comprises 16 wind turbines with a total output of 23.6 megawatts. Other large facilities are in operation in Rhonetal (canton of Valais), near Entlebuch (canton of Lucerne) and on the Gütsch (above Andermatt, canton of Uri). There is still a great deal of potential for wind energy in Switzerland. The goal is to increase the annual production of electricity from wind energy plants to around 600 GWh by 2020 and 4,000 GWh by 2050. Suitable locations for wind parks exist in the Jura range, as well as in the Alps and the western region of the central plateau. The “Wind energy plants” geodata document the current situation regarding wind energy facilities in Switzerland. All data are based on information provided by the power plant operators and are intended to function as information material for the general public. They do not take the form of official information and are not legally binding.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Wind energy plants
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-06-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-02-26
- Identifier
- ch.bfe.windenergieanlagen
Owner
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 25000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Topic category
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- Q Utilities communication
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Duration of Conservation
- 50
- Appraisal of Archival Value
- A
- Reason for Archiving Value
- Evidence of business practice
- geocat.ch
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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opendata.swiss
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Energy resources
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- GEMET
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wind power
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wind power station
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- geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Subtopic Category
- Q1 Energy
- Distribution format
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INTERLIS 2 (XTF)
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TEXT, comma separated (CSV)
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Bundesamt für Energie BFE - Detailbeschreibung
Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE - Detail description
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- OnLine resource
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ch.bfe.windenergieanlagen
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Wind energy plants"
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- OnLine resource
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ch.bfe.windenergieanlagen
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Wind energy plants"
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- OnLine resource
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Fachportal - map.energie.admin.ch
Thematic geoportal - map.energie.admin.ch
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- OnLine resource
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Csv
Csv
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- OnLine resource
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Geopackage
Geopackage
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- OnLine resource
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Interlis
Interlis
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- OnLine resource
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swisstopo REST API
swisstopo REST API
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- OnLine resource
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Download STAC
Download STAC
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- b11962c5-cad9-4783-9e88-d8248e90c47f
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/b11962c5-cad9-4783-9e88-d8248e90c47f
- Date info (Creation)
- 2014-06-17T16:22:26Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-04-13T09:33:37.51627Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
