Renewable power and gas products increasingly in demand
The market survey of Swiss energy suppliers shows that many energy customers consciously choose electricity and gas products from renewable sources. In doing so, they are making a voluntary and steadily growing contribution to the energy transition and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Renewable electricity and gas products continue to be a strong trend. Energy suppliers are also exerting their influence on electricity and gas consumption by offering renewable, ecological and climate-friendly forms of energy - such as naturemade certified energy - as a standard product or at attractive conditions. In 2020, Switzerland covered 76% of its total electricity consumption with electricity from renewable sources. This is the result of the market survey conducted by VUE naturmade among Swiss energy supply companies. This survey was commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
Consciously selected renewable electricity and gas products
Just under one-fifth (17%) of renewable electricity is thus sold via so-called green default products with no opting-out option. This means that locked-in electricity purchasers receive a renewable electricity product from their electricity supplier by default, and cannot switch to another (partially) non-renewable product. For 38% of renewable electricity sales (or 29 % of total final electricity consumption), electricity purchasers make a conscious choice, or receive it through a standard renewable product, even though they would have a cheaper, non-100% renewable electricity product to choose from. According to projections, this means that between 33 % and 44 % of all Swiss households have consciously ordered renewable electricity products.
Slightly more than half of the electricity suppliers surveyed offered their customers naturemade star certified green electricity products. These not only originate from renewable sources, but were also produced in a particularly nature- and environmentally-friendly manner. In 2020, naturemade star certified electricity products accounted for 5% of renewable electricity sales.
Biogas sales rising at a low level
In 2020, Switzerland covered 3.6% of its total gas consumption with biogas. This low share has continuously increased in recent years: in 2019, the share of biogas was still 2.6%, in 2016 it was 1.1%. About one third of biogas consumption is covered with domestic production. Of the biogas sales, 3% were supplied via naturemade star certified products.
The majority of biogas (89%) is sold through natural gas products with biogas content. Such mixed products account for almost a quarter of total gas sales and have a biogas share between 5-75%. Just over half of all gas orders with biogas content (53%)
were for products with a biogas content of 16-25% in 2020, followed by products with 5% of biogas (40%). In 2019, gas orders with a biogas content of 16-25% still accounted for one-fifth of all orders.
Source and further information: VUE Association for Environmentally Sound Energy
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