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Wind energy concept – Swiss federal government basic map of main areas with wind-power potential
The wind energy concept is a concept in accordance with Art. 13 of the Swiss Spatial Planning Act (SPA, SR 700). The concept defines both the principal federal government interests which must be taken into account when planning wind energy plants and the main areas with wind-power potential which must be investigated as part of cantonal structural planning. In this way, the wind energy concept increases planning reliability. The Swiss federal government has identified the main areas with wind-power potential, taking into account the high wind energy yields (basic data from the Wind Atlas of Switzerland, www.windatlas.ch), the principal federal government interests and sufficient spatial concentration. The rough analysis, which is subject to some uncertainty, does not take account of any cantonal or municipal interests and does not permit any assertions to be made about the specific feasibility of wind energy plants. The cartographical representation of the areas with potential should not therefore be seen as a positive plan by the federal government or as competition to structural plan entries that have already been approved; neither does it make any assertions beyond a 1:50,000 scale. The cantons are responsible for identifying suitable areas for wind energy use and the associated balancing of interests appropriate to the relevant levels. The geodata from the main areas with potential are not officially binding but are primarily to be considered as the federal government’s basis for cantons which do not yet have any structural plans in place for wind energy or which want to adapt their structural plans accordingly. In the interests of completeness, the map must be consulted in parallel with the content of the wind energy concept and the associated explanatory report.
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- Alternate title
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Areas with wind-power potential
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-06-28T00:00:00
- Date (Revision)
- 2020-09-18
- Identifier
- ch.bfe.windenergie-potenzialgebiete
Point of contact
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
- As needed
- geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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- GEMET
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wind
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planning
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wind power
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renewable energy source
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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
- Basic Geodata
- false
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Distribution format
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GeoTIFF (GEOTIFF)
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Digital transfer options
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.bfe.windenergie-potenzialgebiete
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Areas with wind-power potential"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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GeoTIFF
GeoTIFF
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:21781
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- bf588f7f-7708-4518-932e-ef950e0c789a
- 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/bf588f7f-7708-4518-932e-ef950e0c789a
- Date info (Creation)
- 2017-05-18T15:49:29Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-06-15T08:52:36.715615Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
