Energy Planning and Thermal Networks

Good coordination between spatial energy planning and settlement development is essential to meeting future needs efficiently and in accordance with overarching legislation. It provides an important basis for expanding the use of regionally available and environmentally friendly energy sources and ensuring an economically viable energy supply.

This makes it easier to coordinate the spatial development of a municipality with the sources of waste heat and environmental heat, which can often only be used locally. In addition, the analysis of the heat demand density enables the targeted development or expansion of thermal networks.

Swiss Climate supports you in the following aspects:

• Analysis of current energy demand and its spatial distribution (electricity and heat)
• Development of future demand scenarios
• Analysis of existing renewable energy sources
• Estimation of the potential of a heating network
• Definition of overarching development or reduction goals
• Deriving a catalogue of concrete measures consistent with the energy planning requirements
• Public relations and support in the context of the relevant legislative process