Incentives

On the level of financial support offered by the cantons more detailed information can be found on the website of the federal office of energy.

Until to now, in Switzerland, the guaranteed minimal rate for the sale of the electricity is 15 cts/kWhs ("Salary for the electric energy supplied from small fittings", press release of the UFE, 9.1.2003).

From 2009 a compensatory feed-in remuneration will be granted for electricity which is produced from renewable energies and fed into the Swiss electricity grid. Producers of renewable electricity from hydro power (up to 10 Megawatts), photovoltaic energy, wind power, geothermal power and biomass energy can register their facilities for the compensatory feed-in remuneration from May 2008. The Federal Office of Energy has now defined the details of the registration process. In addition, the annual quota for photovoltaic energy has been set.

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