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  • National Council decides on offensive for wind energy

    National Council decides on offensive for wind energy

    The National Council has joined the amendments of the Council of States and followed it with regard to the bill on the accelerated approval of wind power plants by 136 votes to 53. Originally, this bill came from the National Council’s Committee for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy. The background to this is the goal of making Switzerland less dependent on electricity imports in times of low sunshine.

    According to a parliamentary press release, energy minister Albert Rösti (SVP) said that an increase in capacity was therefore necessary. However, this would have to be realised “without severely eroding the usual rights of co-determination”. According to the information, there was fundamental opposition to the wind power offensive in parliament only on the part of the SVP. The other parliamentary groups agree that wind energy makes a valuable contribution to the electricity supply in the winter months.

    Therefore, the tenor was that it was unacceptable that projects had to wait more than 20 years for approval. The bill stipulates that the accelerated procedures may only be applied if the municipalities have already approved the installation as part of the land-use planning. According to Rösti, this applies to 39 turbines that are to supply 250 gigawatt hours of electricity annually. These include the Grenchenberg wind farm in the canton of Solothurn, the Eoljorat Sud and Sur Grati projects in the canton of Vaud and the Crêt Neuron project in the canton of Neuchâtel.

    The accelerated procedures are to be applied to wind energy projects in the national interest until an additional capacity of 600 megawatts has been installed. For these projects, the canton will now be responsible for the building permit. In addition, the legal remedies against this decision will be limited: it will only be possible to challenge it before the highest cantonal court.

  • ADEV takes a stake in Fleco Power

    ADEV takes a stake in Fleco Power

    Fleco Power AG , based in Winterthur, has a new shareholder. The ADEV energy cooperative now also holds a 17 percent stake in the subsidiary founded in 2015 by the Ökostrom Schweiz cooperative and MBRSolar , she writes in a statement . She will also be represented on the Fleco Power Board of Directors with her Managing Director Thomas Tribelhorn.

    Fleco Power supports small, decentralized producers of renewable energies in selling their electricity directly. It also offers solutions for end customers, for example helping them to procure renewable electricity on the market in purchasing cooperatives.

    ADEV and Fleco Power want to develop new services and innovation projects together. The long-term goal is to create an independent energy supplier for renewables.

    Founded in 1985, ADEV operates solar power systems, small hydroelectric power plants, wind turbines, central heating systems and local heating networks throughout Switzerland. She also wants to use the cooperation to strengthen her own competitiveness. This makes it possible “to offer our customers tailor-made services that set us apart from the competition,” Thomas Tribelhorn is quoted as saying in the statement.

  • LafargeHolcim strengthens the cycle in the wind industry

    LafargeHolcim strengthens the cycle in the wind industry

    The Zug-based building materials group LafargeHolcim and the Paris-based General Electric subsidiary GE Renewable Energy are teaming up. According to a press release, together they want to find new ways of recycling materials from dismantled wind turbines. The rotor blades are also to become part of a circular economy, among other things as material for the construction of new wind farms.

    Both want to develop closed loop solutions especially for the European market. The background to this is that wind turbines that are aging there by 2025 with a cumulative output of almost 10 gigawatts will be repowered, i.e. replaced with more powerful ones of the latest generation or shut down.

    "With sustainability at the heart of our strategy, the acceleration of renewable energies and the circular economy are top priorities for our company," said Edelio Bermejo, head of the Global Innovation Center at LafargeHolcim. “I am very happy about this collaboration with GE Renewable Energy because it fulfills both goals.” According to the CEO of his partner, Jérôme Pécresse, this collaboration “will make a significant contribution to increasing the sustainability of wind energy today and in the future ".

    Both companies have been working together since 2020. Together with the Danish company Cobod , they are developing record-high towers for wind turbines using concrete 3D printing. These towers are "more robust, more efficient and will be manufactured ten times faster than before," says the press release. According to its own information, LafargeHolcim recycled 46 million tons of material last year. By 2030 it should be 100 million tons.