No. 120: Swiss Nuclear Phaseout: Energy Supply Challenges

Author(s): Jonas Grätz
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 120
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012

The decision to phase out nuclear energy is of strategic importance for Switzerland. Providing a clean, economic, and climate-friendly supply of energy is a major political and societal challenge. A number of ongoing developments in Europe pose further obstacles to a transformation of Switzerland's energy supply. If the Federal Council's Energy Strategy 2050 is to be implemented successfully, a consensus on burden-sharing must be reached.

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