{"id":2687,"date":"2019-12-10T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umweltperspektiven.ch\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:06:15","slug":"energiepolitik-schweiz-koennte-an-position-verlieren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organisator.ch\/en\/sustainability\/2019-12-10\/energiepolitik-schweiz-koennte-an-position-verlieren\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy policy: Switzerland could lose position"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the expansion of the EU's internal energy market, Switzerland has already lost influence, writes the Swiss National Science Foundation. (Image: Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It could become more difficult for Switzerland to exert influence in European energy policy. Moreover, the expansion of renewable energies depends primarily on united political support at home, emphasize Swiss researchers who point out possible energy deficits in the \"National Energy Research Program\".<\/p>\n

As part of the National Energy Research Program, scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL<\/a>) and the University of St.Gallen (HSG<\/a>), the question of what Switzerland would face if negotiations on an electricity agreement failed was explored. Now, in a\u00a0Communication<\/a>\u00a0informed about where the advantages and disadvantages for Switzerland lie. According to her, Switzerland would face \"uncertain but in any case serious consequences\".<\/p>\n

Keyword: EU Single Market\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the expansion of the EU's internal energy market, Switzerland has already lost influence, writes the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF. \"Switzerland has become more dependent on the EU, and vice versa is less and less true,\" Matthias Finger of EPFL is quoted as saying in the statement. \"Without an electricity agreement, Switzerland is threatened with further exclusion in the regulation of central energy matters.\"<\/p>\n

Without an agreement, Switzerland would also face a higher trade deficit in the energy sector, the report continues. This could rise to around CHF 1 billion by 2030. Trade and balancing of the grid by Swissgrid will also become much more difficult without an agreement.<\/p>\n

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Uncertain, but in any case serious effects<\/strong><\/p>\n

Against this background, the researchers investigated the political and economic effects of two contrasting scenarios: a \"direct Europeanization\" via a bilateral electricity agreement and an \"indirect Europeanization\" without an electricity agreement (for example, through autonomous adaptation to the European legal framework).<\/p>\n

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